At the end of the 19th century the “open door policy” led the United States into conflict with Spain. After the battle at Wounded Knee (1890), which resulted in the closing of the internal frontier, America’s need for economic expansion grew due to limited domestic expansion. (Zinn, 297) America’s market became so saturated, that it had to start expanding outward to make a

Franklin Roosevelt repeatedly deceived the American people during the period before Pearl Harbor….He was like the physician who must tell the patient lies for the patient’s own good…because the masses are notoriously shortsighted and generally cannot see danger until it is at their throats. (Zinn, 411)

Unlike the previous two wars, WWII was greatly supported by the public, who supported the fight against fascism and religious oppression. However, the U.S. government and the industry sector that supported it, again, were more concerned with economic gains. Evidence seems to indicate that when documents of the Jews’ mistreatment were reported, Roosevelt “did not see it as a high priority; he left it to the State Department, and in the State Department anti-Semitism and a cold bureaucracy became obstacles to action.” (Zinn, 415) This case was obviously not the cause of the U.S.’s involvement in WWII. Instead, “what brought the United States fully into war was the Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.” (Zinn, 410) Zinn also points out that Pearl Harbor was “not really sudden or shocking to the American government.” (Zinn, 410-11)

Throughout the course of the Spanish-American War, WWI, and WWII, it is clear that the government and the business sector were hungry for wealth and power, and that they w

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