WW2

Had the United States entered the war any earlier the consequences might have been worse. Over the years, people have debated on whether America could have entered World War II earlier, thus saving many lives. To try to understand this, one must look both at the people and government's point of view. Just after war broke out in Europe, President Roosevelt hurriedly called his cabinet and military advisors together. There it was agreed that the United States stay neutral in these affairs. One of the reasons given was that unless America was directly threatened they had no reason to be involved. This reason was a valid one because it was the American policy to stay neutral in any affairs not having to with them unless American soil was threatened directly. The provisional neutrality act passed the senate by seventy-nine votes to two in 1935. On August 31, Roosevelt signed it

Yet another factor that led to this decision of neutrality by President Roosevelt was the American Economy. The health of the American economy could not be jeopardized, whatever was happening elsewhere. It was Roosevelt's view that the United States would fare well (economically speaking) whether Europe went to war or not. For most of the 1930's the United States traded as openly with Germany and Japan as it did with any other country. Japan relied on fuel oil and scrap iron until 1941. Germany was one of the United States' "most important markets" during the 1930's. American investments in Germany increased by forty per cent between 1936 and 1940 America was steadily regaining the prosperity that had diminished during World War 1. The real concern of American business was not "the rights or wrongs of trading with fascism" but the fear that commercial rivals such as Japan and Germany would exclude American goods from Europe and Asia altogether. It is very easy to point and accuse the United States of being selfish, but one has to understand that any negative actions made would have resulted in the United States being almost if not completely out of the economic race. Would the United States have been as prosperous as it is today had they intervened any earlier? They probably would have not because at that time in history America needed a boost to return to its earlier status of being economically stable which Germany and its allies so effectively provided. Therefore President Roosevelt was not about to go to war with all axis powers thereby jeopardizing not only the safety of the American people but also the American economy which was so essential to a large and complex country that the United States was at the time. Unless American interests were directly threatened, Roosevelt hesitated to "push the button".

Had the United States entered the war any earlier or later the consequences could have been much worse (If possible). Towards the end of the war Walter Lippmann, reporter fo

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