Why Did The Us Lose Tension After Ww2

The world was in a great depression after WWI. Germany elected Adolf Hitler to try and make Germany great again. Germany started taking over countries, Great Britain and France both didn't like this so they sat down with Hitler to talk about it. Hitler then said that he wouldn't take over any more countries, and Great Britain and France left him alone. While this was going on Hirohito, and Mussolini were also invading countries. After the meeting Hitler had, the Nazi-Soviet Pact was made between Germany and the Soviet Union to split Poland in half. So a lot of tension was in the air and the U.S wanted to stay out of it. But the United States should not stay isolated because the U.S was the biggest power during this time and to help unify the nations. In Churchill’s Letter to Roosevelt he stated that the U.S could take on the war alone, but should just help Europe with ammunition. The U.S was helping Europe with ammunition, so the U.S. wasn’t staying isolated. In the involvement with Europe the U.S was also being a bond to help nations stay together and come to a halt on the wars. If the U.S were already helping Europe with ammunitions and could take on Germany alone, then the U.S should’ve gone in and finished the war earlier. Also, the Lend-Lease Act said that President Roosevelt could act in war if it was for defensive

So they did that by making this act and receiving letters like Churchill’s, thus showing they weren't staying isolated. This was a common theme in both World Wars. During the beginning of the first World War the U.S wanted to stay isolated for as long as they could, knowing they would have to join the war eventually. The breaking point was when the Germans started sinking ships, from unrestricted submarine warfare. The U.S was doing the same thing during the second war by saying they were isolated, but in all reality were