US always had a good “reputation”
of their power, and because of their economy, they started to involve in things
of the other side of the world
(Europe, Asia and Africa).
The US didn’t have too much participation as in phase 2, because Roosevelt didn’t have that much support to make people join to the cause against German Nazis, this since American people didn’t want to have another war.
Causes:
-Japan attack Pearl Harbor
-Nazi invasion to France
-Operation Sea Lion attack
Pearl Harbor happened on December 7, 1941, and USA was the principal
country affected by this event, which also marked the beginning of the
involvement of United States into World War II.
This event happened because of many different things…
-
On July of 1941, USA stopped the commercial trade with Japan, including
oil trade, because Japan had still presence on China. England did the
same thing
- Japan started a discussion with Washington on November of 1941,
Japan demanded the following: USA must abandon China, continue the
commercial trade, help Japan to get supplies from the Dutch East Indies,
and to stop the USA expansion in the western Pacific.
Americans
proposed the following too: respect territory and sovereignty, no
interference on the other nations’ internal problems, equal opportunity.
Secretary Hull promised to free Japanese assets and resume normal trade
with Japan if these conditions were met.
Japan agreed to think
about the proposal in 2 weeks, and operation Pearl Harbor was in
process, but Americans thought they were going to be attacked in
Phillipines, so they were not prepared in Pearl Harbor
68 civilians
died and 1178 were wounded, and 120 USA planes were destroyed. At the
next day on December 8, America declared war to Japan, and on December
11 Germany and Italy declared war on America in support for their
partner Japan, also an axis power.
The end of the World War 2 caused many positive things to the country as negatives, for example, the inventions and discoveries: the United States organized its scientific resources in the office of Scientific Research and Development, also the area of the medicine improve because many diseases were developed during the war. Many problems were solved in this country but also new problems were created, a good example: The Cold War.
The United States and USSR were the important to the cold war, they have political tension and wanted the hegemony of the world. United states were capitalist and USSR was communism. U.S.A wanted to spread Capitalist, but the communist didn’t allow this so they were competing because they wanted their ideas all over the world. U.S.A propose the Marshall plan to provide money to European countries, also they have the NATO (Intergovernmental military alliance) and the CIA (was to collect intelligence, advise the president and inform him about events around the world moreover they made doctrines, the Truman doctrine and the Eisenhower doctrine this was to supported other countries.
Bibliography
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