The United States was responsible for WW II?
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You can post this question as many times as you want, you're still wrong.  Wrong on so many levels;\n\nWilson did not "force" the US into WW1.  War was declared as set out in the Constitution.  Wilson was elected President and given authority to take exactly those decisions.  Given the behaviour of German submarines while the US was still neutral the general view is that he behaved with remarkable restraint. Certainly the idea that he wanted a war is BS.\n\nIf the US had not declared war the most likely outcome would have been for the Germans to over run northern France and then the Allies would have sued for peace.  If you remember the Russians had recently signed their own peace treaty with Germany following the revolution.  Several million German troops were heading for the western front at the point the US entered the war.\n\nSuggesting that the Nazi Party just wanted "Redemption of Germany" is a particularly revolting smear on the memory of all the people murdered by Hitler's regime.  What the Nazi Party wanted is set out in black and white in Mein Kampf, published before Hitler came to power.  It's all there if you bother to read it.  How you can possibly equate the murder of 6 million plus innocents and the invasion of a dozen European countries with payback for the WW1 peace treaty is beyond me.\n\nThe Serbian state did not assassinate anyone.  It was the work of an extremist political group.  And the idea that the assassination "forced" Germany to invade Belgium is truly pathetic.
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The bush administration is responsible for the whole 9-11 attack. Watch 9-11: Loose Change (2nd Edition).
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I think you will find most of what you are searching for here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#World_War_I_and_II\n\nGood Luck!!! :-)
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2 separate questions; 2 different answers.\nThe USA is the only country that really won WWII.  All other countries that participated either lost or broke even.  Our closest ally, Great Britain, was physically and financially exhausted after being in the thick of it during WWI and WWII.  All of Europe and parts of the Far East were a wreck.  You could possibly make the case that all of the European countries' colonies also "won" WWII, in the long run, because most became independent within 15 years or so after the war.  This might not have happened had the war not been fought.  \nAll of the other Allied countries broke even, in that they escaped being ruled by the Nazis or imperial Japan, with all the suffering and horror that would have accompanied either.  However, it took a while after the war for living standards in the Allied countries outside the USA to reach those of the pre-war era.  \nAfter the war, the USA embarked on an economic expansion greater than any other in history, and it has continued (with some ups and downs) until today.\nWho played the most important part?  IMHO, Great Britain played the most important part (I think this in spite of being an American who loves his country).  The armed forces of the UK led by the indomitable Winston Churchill, hastily raised after declaring war in 1939, managed to hold off the well-tuned Nazi war machine - completely alone - from early 1940 (after the fall of France) to mid-1942, when the US and the USSR started making a real difference in the war.\nThe contribution of the USSR cannot be denied or diminished.  Soviet soldiers fought bravely and desperately against incredible odds, and despite many deficiencies in equipment and training managed to smash the Nazis on the huge expanse of the eastern front.  But keep in mind that Stalin was quite happy to help Hitler carve up eastern Europe when it suited his purposes, and he was also supplying the Germans with much-needed food and fuel right up to the day of the Nazi invasion of the USSR.\nThe USA, in 1943-1945, finished the job that was begun by the UK and USSR.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt  wanted to help the allies as a neutral nation.  After Sunday,7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack by Japan;the next day the Germans declared war against the US . America legally and officially declared war on Thursday,11 December 1941.  Europe would get help first and then Japan was second.\n\n\n\nGood night y'all.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
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The Marshall Plan:  after World War 2 the united states implemented a plan to help and support the defeated enemies get back on their feet.  This helped keep festering resentment for having to pay reparations from occurring in these lands (which is what led to WW2 from WW1)
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Germany and France still owe us from the World Wars...\nIf we were to take/require their oil as payment, one could make the arguement that the US invaded Iraq not for safety (potential for WMDs) and not for their freedom...\nwe have to pay them for their oil or we have stolen it from them
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America got involved in World War I because of the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram. (Germany asked Mexico to attack the US and Germany promised they could have Texas and California back!)
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Probably the same one FDR gave the day after it happened.  \nHe didn't have to convince anyone of anything.  The Japanese declared war on the US, formally, while the attack was still going on.  The US declared a state of war on Dec 8th, retroactive to the time of the attack.  Germany declared war on the US a day or so later and the US reciprocated almost immediately.
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Hi, I've learned in History that President Wilson came up with a plan- the fourteen points to prevent another war from occurring however congress did not approve of Wilson's idea of the US joining the League of Nation. Without the peace keeping organization US got involved and fought in WW2.
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World War II had six major causes: anger over the Versailles Treaty, the failure of the peace efforts after World War I, the rise of Fascism, the goals of Hitler, the isolationism by America and Britian, and the re-armament of Europe.
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We are about as empowered as Germans were after 1933.\nTo me, the 9/11 was our Reichstag fire.  Maybe we can take our country back.  Maybe.
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http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=World+War+II&gwp=13
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The US, of course. We had a purpose in 1945, when several of our men were killed by the Japanese Imperial Army. But to defend ruthless murder, like the bombing of an innocent Iraq, is bullsh*t. I refuse to justify Vietnam, Iraq, or other times that we have slaughtered women and children. I refuse to glorify the murder of children abroad and at home, let alone the many other twisted truths about are US. But don't blame the country, blame the ringmasters that ARE leading us to hell. Thank the Bushes, Reagan, Nixon and several other bastards that contributed to the blood that lies on our hands and the hate that is blown to us by millions. As far as I am concerned, anyone who defends the actions of the Conservative Horsemen may as well wish death on the US, democracy, and the world.\n\nAs for the war in Iraq, why the hell would anyone claim that as an excuse of the greatness of the American Forces. How many other countries are killing their own citizens? What have we done in Korea? To Osama Bin Laden? In Louisiana? What about poverty? Drugs? The defecit of the United States? To defend the murderers of our country is to spit in the face of Lady Liberty, to piss on the graves of Harry Trumam and John F. Kennedy, who actually helped to save the United States, and to congratulate and bow to the feet of Satan himself.
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the United Kingdom, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered to and then joined the Allies in late 1943. Germany surrendered to the Allies in May of 1945. The war ended on 2 September 1945 with the formal surrender of Japan.\n\nApproximately 62 million people died in the war. Most were civilians, as a result of the large-scale aerial bombing of cities, disease, starvation, and genocide (see the Holocaust). It is guessed that the Soviet Union suffered around 23 million deaths, and that China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million.\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, with significant boundary changes and displacement of people as the Soviet Union's borders shifted westwards.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers, such as India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, began their road to independence.\n\nFinally, the war saw a number of newly developed weapons that were used against either military and civilian targets. Atomic weapons, long range missiles, jet aircraft, and radar, are only a few of many wartime inventions that changed the nature of future conflict.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WW_2
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We entered WWII after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, not because Hitler declared war on America, it was common knowledge that Hitler wanted to take over the world. It wasn't 20 million people it was 11-12 million. if you really want to place the blame anywhere but the Nazis and Fascists then you should blame France and Britain and the other Allies that attend the Munich Conference. It was here that the policy of appeasement was applied towards Hitler. Appeasement if you don't know is the act of giving in to enemies in order to avoid war. Britain and France allowed hitler to take over the Rhineland and it was only after hitler's invasion of Poland that the rest of Europe declared war. Also the blame lies with the individals that lived in areas surrounding the concentration camps that swore after the war that they had no idea what was going on in their backyards (as if the smell of rotting and burning flesh isn't and obvious give away!!) and FDR's New Deal Programs helped to pull us out of the Great Depression as opposed to Hoover who didn't try to help the unemployed and starving people that were being thrown from their homes!