How the U.S. Lost Neutrality in WWII because of Pearl Harbor

How the U.S. Lost Neutrality in WWII Because Of Pearl Harbor Since the end of the First World War, America and its people did not want more war. The last thing they wanted was to get involved in another war; little did they know that war was not so far away from their doorstep. After the first World War, many Americans thought that large corporations who wanted profitable military contracts had arranged U.S. participation in the war, and suspicion of big business and of internationalism developed more after the stock market crash in October 1929 (Carroll-Mason, 2010). Despite all of the U.S attempts to stay out of war, America finally declared war on Japan in 1945 because of their attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Woods, 2008). World War II started with the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 (Beinart, 2009). It was not until two years after the beginning of World War II that the United States entered the war in 1941. The president at the time was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR (Thompson, 2010). Roosevelt became the thirty-second president of the united stated and was president for three terms from 1933-1945 (Thompson, 2010). After his first presidential election, Roosevelt promised a new deal for the American people. At this time Americas was under the Great Depression (Thompson, 2010). Before his election, as the United States struggled in the depths of despair of the Great Depression, the international scene grew more and more threatening (Carroll-Mason,Show MoreRelatedAmerica s Position On World War II1273 Words   |  6 Pagesâ€Å" Pearl harbor caused our nation to the course of our nation’s history and the world’s future.’’ How did the American’s position on World War II change, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? The American’s position on World War II, changes when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. 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