Question
Describe the US involvement into the Second World War.
Solution
The USA had resisted involvement in the war.
(i)It was unwilling to once again face all the economic problems that the First World War had caused. But it could not stay out of the war for long.
(ii)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.
(iii)When Japan extended its support to Hitler and bombed the US base at Pearl Harbor, the US entered the Second World War.
