Who went to war in 1939?

Answer 1

Answer 1Very much so, BUT NOT AS A COMBATANT. We had already begun to "tool up" our various industries to manufacture all types of war materials to aid those nations in harms way.

I wasn't around then, but I think we were providing a significant part of almost everything England needed to survive, a tremendous amount of weaponry and logistical support to the Soviet Union, and some logistical support to the Scandanavian nations which had not fallen to the Nazi war machine.

Additionally, even though we, as a nation, were not officially in combat, we did provide some combat assistance, unofficially, by individual US citizens joining the military forces of several nations already in the conflict. Also I think, we provided a tremendous amount of military "advisors," and intelligence gathering and analysis assistance.

There are probably many other ways we were involved, but these are all I can recall at this moment.

As an alternative outlook

Answer 2

ALSO SEE

Why the USA did not supply "AID" to Britain

prior to Pearl Harbor

The Mood Of The USA 1939 to Pearl Harbor

By - Rooseveltes Roving Ambassador of that time

http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=BdI7HgrkFCI

As I remember from a documentary

The USA took Britains gold reserve, then extended credit for supplying the UK war effort, some would call this profeteering, though even this was against the popular sentiment in the general population of the USA at the time.

Money is power and the new super power of the USA was on its way to creation, through bankrupting the old, and not getting directly involved until Britain was bankrupt.

All the while the the UK was being reduced to rubble, and other countries were falling to Nazi domination.

Pearl Harbor - changed US opinion though, not a sense of duty to the Jewish people or saving democracy and the free world from the Nazi Blitzkrieg.

Answer 2

The war was started by the Nazis when they invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The Brits and French declared war on Germany. Then the war escalated when Germany invaded France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Denmark. The rest is history.

Answer 3

Like most sensible people, they tried to stay out of what was viewed in most of America as an European war. Though America did unofficially aid Britain with supplies and a number of old war ships under the lend lease treaty. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and Nazis Germany (allies of Japan) declared war on America, America came into the war officially on the side of Britain and her Allies.