Isolationism In Ww2
World War II a war that will never be forgotten. A war started Seventy Eight years ago due to the psychopathic maniac, Adolf Hitler, and The Axis Powers. Even before Germany started World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in 1939, World War II was being fought in the Pacific with the Japanese invasion of China two years earlier in 1937. These two countries, Germany and Japan, would soon join together to form the Axis Powers with the aid of Italy on September 27, 1940. This joining of power became known as the signing of the Tripartite Pact. Adolf Hitler, Hideki Tojo, Benito Mussolini are all leaders of the countries who are a part of the Axis Powers. These leaders were all dictators of their countries and had one goal in mind: to expand their territory. Specifically, Japan wanted to have complete control of the Pacific and to expand their land, and the only way they could do so successfully was to get rid of a one major threat. That huge threat was the United States of America.
Before the United States entered the war they did not involve themselves in the fighting because they were in a time of isolationism, which is defined as
The policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign …show more content…
A perfect day to invade Pearl harbor. All the American soldiers doing their normal routine work and some were still in their pajamas or playing card games. Sunday was a good day to attack because it is known as a rest day. At Seven in the morning there was a disturbance with the radar systems at the Oahu radar station. There was fifty planes seen on the radar. The Privates who were manning the station call up their supervisors to let them know what they were seeing and the supervisors suspected it to be US airplanes B-17. They didn’t think anything of it. The United States knew something was going to happen but they didn’t know where it was going to
Before the United States entered the war they did not involve themselves in the fighting because they were in a time of isolationism, which is defined as
The policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign …show more content…
A perfect day to invade Pearl harbor. All the American soldiers doing their normal routine work and some were still in their pajamas or playing card games. Sunday was a good day to attack because it is known as a rest day. At Seven in the morning there was a disturbance with the radar systems at the Oahu radar station. There was fifty planes seen on the radar. The Privates who were manning the station call up their supervisors to let them know what they were seeing and the supervisors suspected it to be US airplanes B-17. They didn’t think anything of it. The United States knew something was going to happen but they didn’t know where it was going to