Why Did The Us Enter Ww2 Analysis

While the above delineates why the United States began to support britain and wage economic war on the Germans, it does not explain fully why the United States actually entered World War II as a combative power. However, an analysis of the goals and strategies of major powers at this point can help supplement the above information to provide an explanation as to why the United States fought in Europe. First, Germany’s geopolitical goals (as seen completely separate from their “moral” goals of creating a master race) involved conquest of other countries to create one massive power structure centered in Berlin. Side effects of this conquest and the massive power structure itself included bloc economics and economic suffocation of the United States. For Britain, the war was one of preservation. Not only did the British wish to retain their freedom from a Nazi regime, but they also had interest in retaining the status of the British empire, which at this point was still active in the Caribbean, Hong Kong, and India, among other places. France also
While it is true that moral pressures and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor contributed, in reality the United States had been looking for ways to deal with Hitler. If the US had not stepped in and Britain had fell, Roosevelt’s vision of an open, international economy would not have come to fruition. Not only that, but also the US would fight a losing economic war to Nazi Europe. Instead, Roosevelt chose to support Britain financially and through trade, eventually allowing the United States to enter the war itself to secure victory over the Germans. Simply put, by the end of 1941, the United States did not feel secure with Britain as their defender, so they went to