He lead the army in the revolutionary war and was the first president.
Lincoln never lead the US to war, it was the Confederacy that made the first shot that trigger the war, so the question should be "Why did President Jefferson Davis lead the Confederacy to war?" If the Confederate States of America would have not declare war with the Union, they would be a county to this very day, Lincoln never had tension to go to war with the south at all.
South Carolina and it lead to the Civil War
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The US OUT-PRODUCED all nations in everything during WW2.
Because they knew that America was going to get involved in the war at that point, and, as they were allied with the Japanese, they knew it wouldn't be on Germany's side.
Like the US Civil War in the 1860s the Vietnam War in the 1960s divided America.
US Civil War & Vietnam War.
the Vietnam war
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson .
Of course. The collapse of the Nazis and the shrinking role of western powers was a great opportunity for the US to take the lead.