How Did Ww2 Affect America
World War II officially started for the United States after the bombing at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, but it actually goes deeper then that. Before the the bombing Japan was in a time of need, along with that the United states had a foreign policy that did not relativity stick. This leaded to the US trying to create relations with Japan, which ultimately leads to the US creating relations with China. The US had these relations due to the fact that the relations between Japan and China were awful.During the time Japan was in China they went to war with each other. Then due to all these relations failing it pushed the US into a time of war when Japan had the audacity to bomb Pearl Harbor, which affected the whole country. The US joined World
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It all happened At 7:55 in the morning on 7 December 1941. On this date hundreds of Japanese planes flew over the unprepared U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor and destroyed everything (Violence in America). According to Violence in America “Although the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise and a humiliation for the U.S. military, it was also the climax of a decade of rising tensions between Japan and the United States.” The next day the U.S. president declared war on Japan and had officially joined the second world …show more content…
The U.S. had a mass production of weapons being made. The president knew they were at a time of war so he planned for over 300,000 planes, tanks, and anti aircraft weapons to be made in the next to years along with shipping over 15 million tons of materials (World Book Advanced pg 3). All of these weapons had to be made and paid for which changed the tax system of the United States. Since they were at a time of war industrial workers earned 70 percent more money and farmers earned an incredible 300 percent more. To raise money for the war the us had to increase the income tax to low wage families. And the tax system from World War II had continued into the United States’ economy in the twenty first century (Sidney
It all happened At 7:55 in the morning on 7 December 1941. On this date hundreds of Japanese planes flew over the unprepared U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor and destroyed everything (Violence in America). According to Violence in America “Although the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise and a humiliation for the U.S. military, it was also the climax of a decade of rising tensions between Japan and the United States.” The next day the U.S. president declared war on Japan and had officially joined the second world …show more content…
The U.S. had a mass production of weapons being made. The president knew they were at a time of war so he planned for over 300,000 planes, tanks, and anti aircraft weapons to be made in the next to years along with shipping over 15 million tons of materials (World Book Advanced pg 3). All of these weapons had to be made and paid for which changed the tax system of the United States. Since they were at a time of war industrial workers earned 70 percent more money and farmers earned an incredible 300 percent more. To raise money for the war the us had to increase the income tax to low wage families. And the tax system from World War II had continued into the United States’ economy in the twenty first century (Sidney