If Japan hadn't attacked Pearl Harbor, do you think the U.S. would have still gotten into WWII?
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Yes...we would have found some morally sound reason for getting involved.
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Roosevelt would have found some other way to bring the United States into the war. BTW, It's been rumoured that he had advance knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor and did nothing to prevent it. Do you believe that?
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Doubtful :)
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I think most likely we would have been dragged in anyway. Pearl harbor was a major catalyst, though.
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pearl harbor was the main reason but it was just a matter of time without the U.S. germany, japan, and italy would of conquered EVERYONE except russia. wow i miss learning about history
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The US had no intention of entering the WW11 and would not have gone into Europe to fight with Germany.The Pearl Harbor was a the beginning on their entry into the war.Why they went into Europe as well as fighting with Japan I do not know.
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Most likely, because Hitler was out to conquer the world, this would have led him to America sooner or later.
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We had to make up some good excuse to enter into the war so America sacrificed Hawaii. What most people don't know or don't want to believe is we were blocking Japan's imports from countries they did business with (an embargo) if you will. Kind of like poking the bear.. *Germany was allied with Japan to answer another post.
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Wow that's a lot of past history questions coming from such a young girl....My answer is yes, we would have found another way to get into the European conflict, England and their small band of allies could have never handled Germany, as far as Japan goes we might have signed a peace treaty with them eventually and never went to war, I don't know how it would have effected the modern day far east as we know it today, Japan might have been part of Communist China!
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We needed Pearl Harbor. People fight for causes and injustice. Countries fight for money. We would have entered one way or another because of Germany.
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I agree with most of the responses here by saying yes. I feel as though conflicts would still have created a WWII-
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Yes. The Lend-Lease policies tied us remarkably close to the UK and it also helped us gear up war production. We were protecting our shipments and we would have eventually been attacked enough that we would have entered the European front. If we went to war with Hitler, then we would have been at war with Japan and Italy by default.
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Due to the nature of the war, it was only a matter of time before the US joined. Pearl Harbour was WANTED by the US and they knew about the attack hours before it happened but did nothing about it as they wanted to join the war and needed an excuse. Was their involvement key to the eventual outcome? Yes it was. They did NOT win the war in Europe, that was Russia and Hitlers failed attacks on the eastern front, but they did speed the victory up. As for Japan, I do not think it is possible for anyone to argue against the US winning that one, although once again, it was NOT single handed.
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Yes we would have entered it anyway at some point. See Pearl Harbor was just the excuse Roosevelt was looking for to get us into the war. He wanted us in there in somne form or another ever since Germany attacked Great Britan however there was no support in congress for it up until we were attacked.
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only after a few million more genocides
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Yes, because of money. More to the point: certain interests in the United States could not afford a conquered Britain.
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They would have entered eventually, because it was in their best interests to do so. World War 2 was a massive money making opportunity for the USA and they took full advantage of it. This is not meant to demean the sacrifices of countless thousands of brave young men, whose contribution to humanity should never be forgotten.
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Yes, we would have eventually entered the war. We were selling war supplies to the British, and we all know what happened to the Lusitania, when the Germans thought they had war supplies.
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Probably. The U.S. was already providing convoy escort in the Atlantic for ships bound for the Britian. It was only a matter time before there was an "incident." On October 31, 1941. While escorting a convoy, the American destroyer U.S.S. Reuben James was torpedoed and sunk with the loss of 115 of 160 crewmen, including all officers. Surprisingly, it was not the first sinking but the first loss of U.S. life.(SOURCE:http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2Timeline/reubenjames.html)
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