Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Steps towards war
The lecture today really showed how America slowly took steps towards war. It jsut seemed like we weren't really trying to stay out of the war. We just kept becoming more and more involved in the war. At first we tried to stay neutral and then we did Cash/Carry which was for Britain and France. Then Lend/Lease which was for Britian. So we tried not to choose sides at first and then we try to make it look like we weren't on a side and then we just helped out Britain. America slowly worked its way towards step by step. I think it was inevitable that we entered the war, even if we were not bombed by Japan. It would have just taken a little longer. America was even building up its army the whole time. Everything America did pointed towards war in the future.
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I have to agree that America would have entered the war without the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Germany had already attacked and sunk a US ship and it would have only been a matter on time before it happened again and America could not continue to turn its back on dead sailors and sunken ships. Also, leaders in Germany were pressing Hitler to declare war on America long before Pearl Harbor and with Hitler’s irrational behavior it was only a matter of time before he declared war on America, whether in made sense or not.
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