How did WW2 start? Is there a way to justify what went on,? One main reason people fought in WW2 was for natural resources; the attacks planned by Adolf Hitler were not random, they went after places high in natural resources, like oil, or were taking out places that would help their conquest. The Germans would not be stopped - they kept conquering countries left and right, and America basically just let it come unwittingly. There was the treaty of Versailles, and that was only one thing, what about the neutrality acts, or Japan attacking China? These are examples of what was happening, while America paid little attention. It was like Hitler and Germany were a lion, and America was an ostrich with its head in the sand. The lion would come right …show more content…
Isolationists saw it as an entry into the war; Roosevelt argued that the security of the United States depended on a strong British Navy.” this quote shows how people are divided and how people are afraid of the war. And also, how people have majorly different ideas on how to confront the war raging around. , consequently, though people want to stay out of the war, they know that they are bound to end up in it, “Although President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had pledged that he would keep American “boys” from the fray in Europe, he realized that the outbreak of war there, and American involvement in it, was virtually inevitable...In addressing Congress on September 21, 1939, Roosevelt advised that”I regret equally that I signed that act.” in a few words Roosevelt foreshadowed the coming years.”The quote shows how Even though the United States pledged to stay out of the war, Roosevelt knew we could not stay neutral, and that we knew that the war was going to be bad. No matter how much we wanted to stay out of it, the United States knew we were going to end up on that battlefield, we just didn't know when or where. This is why I believe that the war affects …show more content…
It is said that WW2 affected nations as “Japan declares its policy to establish a “new order” in East Asia” as it is trying to establish a new law in East Asia, which is a major political decision, as it will affect all the laws, and governments already there, not to mention the politics and decisions that you have to make in order to move troops to take over East Asia. But in a war, people are affected socially, as in wars, everything affects the people.wars bring nations together to fight for their beliefs, after a war, we are divided, but during the war, we a connected. In a war people are given opportunities, women and families step up to keep factories working while many soldiers are away, thus getting more money and a better job “Nobody played hooky the day teacher Doris Jordan at Jamison Elementary School explained how every pupil can help win the war. These Roanoke, Virginia, youngsters, along with some 30 million other young Americans, were mobilized into the nation’s newest home-front fighters, the junior army, to collect scrap metal and other things needed to supply the war effort.” even children were affected socially, as they were asked to help find and create things to