American Involvement In Ww2 Essay

The War That Help Combat Aggression

America’s involvement in WWII was justified, plus necessary to combat different forms of aggression, not just overseas, but also back home.

The attack on Pearl Harbor proved that America was no longer free from attack on U.S soil and that the mainland could also be attacked. On December 7, 1941, Americans realized that the Japanese without a threat, would wage war and would bring that war to U.S. soil. This was the tipping point for Americans to no longer have an excuse to stay out WWII. America would be proven to be vulnerable as their counterparts in Europe. If Americans wanted peace on the mainland, the war would need to be kept overseas or it could eventually head domestically. The attack allowed Franklin D. Roosevelt to ask for a declaration of war, as he stated, “The

military. Unlike previous U.S. wars, which were fought on domestic soil or on a single continent, WWII put the U.S in multiple regions of the world at once. As manpower became a priority, racial discrimination could no longer be an issue. Soldiers had to become unified because America could not afford to lose in the war. Roosevelt and black American soldiers knew unification would be needed in the arm forces during WWII more than ever if America were to overcome the new common American enemies. If the U.S. were to combat aggression, tyranny, and justice overseas, the U.S. would have to also change its ways. This can be seen in the letters from, “Strange Paradox” of the War, as a black soldier states “How can we convince nearly one-tenth of the Armed Forces, the Negro members, that your pronouncement of the war aims of the United Nations means what it says, when their experience with one of the United Nations, the United States of America, is just the Opposite?” The ideology of WWII contributed to the end of segregation in the United