Could WWII have been prevented?

There are many ways that world war 2 could have been avoided. If Hitler had have believed there was a credible threat of war (including an invasion by France on his western flank) then he may have held off from an invasion of Poland.

How did FDR respond to World War 2?

Franklin Roosevelt gave a radio address to Americans on the same day, deploring the commencement of war while laying the blame on Nazi aggression. In a careful balancing act, he tried to arouse American indignation at Hitler’s effort to dominate Europe while pledging his adherence to the Neutrality Act passed in 1937.

Would US have entered WW2 without Pearl Harbor?

At the most extreme, no attack on Pearl Harbor could have meant no US entering the war, no ships of soldiers pouring over the Atlantic, and no D-Day, all putting ‘victory in Europe’ in doubt. On the other side of the world, it could have meant no Pacific Theatre and no use of the atomic bomb.

What president entered ww2?

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Vice President Henry A. Wallace won the election of 1940, and were at the helm of the nation as it prepared for and entered World War II. Roosevelt sought and won a fourth term in office in 1944, but this time with Harry S. Truman as his Vice President.

What could the US have done to prevent WW2?

Congress passed a series of Neutrality Acts in the late 1930s, aiming to prevent future involvement in foreign wars by banning American citizens from trading with nations at war, loaning them money, or traveling on their ships.

Was Japan justified in attacking Pearl Harbor?

Japan. Japanese civilians were more likely to view the actions of Pearl Harbor as a justified reaction to the economic embargo by western countries. In additional to elements of nationalism, the perceived insult of the United States trade embargo resulted in Japanese civilians’ view of Pearl Harbor as justified.

Would the Allies have won the war better if the Americans didn’t?

Would the Allies have won the war better if the Americans had been contributing as an ‘arsenal of democracy’ but NOT involved in the fighting? Probably yes.

Could the Allies have won WW2 without American industrial reserves?

Probably yes. American industrial reserves and financial reserves were as important to the Allies winning WW2 as British industrial and financial reserves were to the earlier Allies winning WW1, and the Napoleonic Wars (in which by the way the US fought on Napoleon’s side).

What if the United States had remained neutral during WWI?

It is no joke to suggest that a still neutral US, guaranteeing the Western Atlantic, and putting all the resources needed for replacement shipping into tanks and aircraft and landing craft, would have greatly improved the fighting position of the many millions of under-resourced Allied troops fighting with inadequate supplies.

Why didn’t the Allies have more military equipment during WW2?

The Allies simply had too many millions of underemployed – because under-equipped – spare men in Russia and North Africa and India and China to not have benefitted from the US sending more equipment sooner, rather than less for a long time, and then badly trained conscripts later.