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USA Saves the day
wwi and wwii
Did you know that Americans saved the World War 1 and World War 2?
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World War I
This happened when the American’s entered the World War 1. The battle president Woodrow Wilson started was between isolationism and globalizing. He also said that American’s was fight because it was to liberate the people of this world. As they entered the war, the United States started of by building alliances with its neighbors. Woodrow also asked congress if he can declare war on Germany, and Congress also passed the Espionage Act of 1917, which had a major impact. In the Spiegel Online article, “WWI and America’s Rise as a Superpower,” author Hans Hoyng, “Wilson was also able to confiscate 97 German and Austrian ships in US ports, which were then used to transport 40,000 soldiers to Europe. About two million more "doughboys" would follow by the fall of 1918.” These things showed America’s power and helped end the war shortly after in November, 1918. Without the Americans helped, the war would have lasted longer.
World War II
Unfortunately, only twenty years later, another world war broke out. It started in 1939. First off America was neutral in 1935-1937. Then later on Franklin Roosevelt wanted to help out the allies (France and Great Britain). During that time the Germany was expanding, and that scared the Americans. When World War 2 started the American’s was isolationist. The United States entered the war because of the bomb of the Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. They also supplied the soviet unions with food and transportations. Without them joining the war the war would’ve lasted longer because they had more things like troops and weapons. In four years the United States had more planes then the axis powers combine because all the other countries couldn’t make a successful 4 engine heavy bomber.
"Once the United States entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Axis cause was largely doomed."
Victor Hanson, National Review
