When war broke out, there was no way the world could possibly know what was going to happen. Fortunately one country saw and understood that Germany and its allies would have to be stopped. America’s involvement in World War II not only contributed in the fall of the crazy Adolph Hitler and his allies. Had the United Stated entered the war any earlier the consequences might have been worse.

Over the years it has been an often heated and argued issue on whether the United States could have entered the war sooner and then have probably saved more lives. To understand this we must look at both 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 would 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 an acceptable because it was the American policy to stay neutral in any affairs not having to do with them unless American soil was threatened. The Neutrality Act passed the senate seventy nine votes to two in 1935. On August 31, Roosev

The health of the American economy could not be in problems. It was Roosevelt’s view that the United States would fare well whether Europe went to war or not. “Gold was flowing in from Europe’s capitals. Orders were mounting daily for equipment and supplies of all kinds. America was building a battleship for Stalin, aero-engines for France.” (Overy 277) 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 percent between 1936 and 1940. America was steadily regaining the prosperity that destroyed during World War I.

Why risk going to war, when it is unfavorable to the American policy which most Americans were in agreement with and not mentioning the fact that the American military was in a bit of trouble. Yet another factor that led to this decision of the Neutrality by President Roosevelt was the American economy.

It is very easy to point and accuse the United States of being selfish, but you must understand any negative actions that made the United States be almost out of the economic race. The United States probably couldn’t intervene early in the war because they needed a boost to return to its earlier status of being economically stable. That is why President Roosevelt was not about to go to war with all axis powers. Unless America was directly threatened, Roosevelt hesitated to “push the button.” (Churchill 542)

The desire to avoid “foreign entanglements” of all kinds had been an American foreign p

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