Question

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTION
Why did the USA show unwillingness to get involved in the Second World War initially? Why did it change its attitude afterwards?

Answer 1

In the beginning, the USA had resisted involvement in the war. It was unwilling once again to face all the economic problems that the First World War had caused. But it could not stay out of the war for long. Japan was expanding its power in the east It had occupied French Indo-China and was planning attacks on US naval bases in the pacific.

When Japan extended its support to Hitler and bombed the US base at Pearl Harbor, the US entered the Second World War. The war ended in May 1945 with Hitler's defeat and the US dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.