What the reason the US did not want to get in to world war 2?

Answer 1

The US had already been involved with one European embroilment during the 1st World War (originally called the Great War, prior to WW2); and didn't relish the idea of another one. Germany/Japan may have attacked other nations; but they weren't attacking the US. Of all of the MAIN combatants, the US was the most geographically isolated from aggression (the Americas-North America, Central America, South America...of which the latter two remained neutral through out the war).

Answer 2

Politics, and finance.

All politicians have at least to considerations that guide their votes: 1st how will my vote enhance, or damage my ability to be re elected! Thus the mood of the public dictates when a democracy declares war. The sinking of the Lusitania, was the fuse that angered the American public against the Germans, this made it democratically safe to declare war against the Germans. Any government that gets it's country into an unpopular war, is domed to failure.

2nd Other peoples wars make wonderful markets, prophets for the rich, work for the people. When the country's children have to be armed to fight; this takes a large bight out of the national prophet margin. That is the bottom line, "Wars that are not prophet able are doom, for both the country, and the political party that declared them. The law of "U nighted we stand; Divided we fall" is the rule of thumb for declaring wars!

Answer 3

The Great Depression kept us initially from the war because of financial issues. Also, a fear of a WWI repeat with many lives lost was looming...A more in-depth look would point towards the Monroe Doctrine and keeping away from European affairs. All in all, the U.S. made money from not being in the war (the Land-Lease Act). This profit, many believe, is the reason the U.S. was brought out of the depression.

many Americans were isolationists.

Indeed, the short answer would be isolationist beliefs of many Americans (and congressmen)

Answer 4

The U.S. wanted to stay out of another world war after the results of world war one and the following depression where they lost millions in brutal trench warfare and returned with traumatized soldiers unable to work due to disabilities.

Answer 5

There were many reasons but the most serious ones were : there was a world-wide depression going on, where over a quarter of the population was unemployed. Also, the government did not have the money to man and arm the armed forces , and the people of the US still had a "bad taste" from their experience with the First World War, which at the time, was billed as "The War to end all wars".

Answer 6

The U.S. stayed out of the second World War because they saw it as, " It's not on our soil, we don't have to worry " mentality. Not until Pearl Harbor was bombed did it give a reason to engage into the war without angering the people.

Answer 7

The general populace and the majority of the Congress did not want to fight in another European war after the fiasco of the Great War, World War 1. The US suffered the loss of too many men in a war fought for many convoluted reasons that had nothing to do the United States. They went to war out of anger over a few injustices that happened to them because of the European war but not for the reasons the Great War was being fought.

The Americans realized later they should have never gone to Europe to fight in that horrendous war. The European problems were not resolved in that war therefore when World War 2 started they refused to fight over European issues again.

Today's Americans and other people need to realize it was an age when people did not have cell phones, satellites, television, instant messages on the internet, instant world wide news coverage, world wide telephone services and all the other global advances we have now. The Americans did not know what Europe was like or about the cruelty of the Nazis or the suffering of the people who were oppressed by the Nazis. There were some Americans and Canadians who did report what was going on but the Americans failed to realize the gravity of the murdering and cruel acts of the Nazi Germans.

Even the soldiers from the US who went to the European Theater of Operations truly did not realize why they had to defeat the Nazis. Some of the soldiers and Marines who found the concentration camps admitted they never really understood why they had to fight until they saw the thousands of dead Jews in the camps and the ones who were barely clinging to life.

The isolationism was a fruit of the misunderstandings of 1919 armistice, the Treaty of Versailles and the tragedies of the Great War. Once the Americans had their own people and place attacked they realized they could no longer avoid being involved in the war.

Answer 8

Many Americans thought Europe was a mess and they didn't want to enter another bloody war like World War I.

Answer 9

Because they could