The Second World War
World War I created high instability in Europe which created a stage for World War II. This resulted in the rise of Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party who took over the nation and signed a strategic treaty with Japan and Italy in vision to dominate the world. The breaking point of World War II was when Hitler attacked Poland in 1939, which resulted in Britain and France declaring war on Germany. This is up to date the deadliest war in history, where approximately 60 million people were killed with six million Jews died in the Nazi camps (Beevor, 2012). Besides the concentration camps, death camps were also created in Nazi Germany, which was used to kill people on an industrial scale. The Japanese camps were mainly used as the labour camps also had a conflict where they experienced a lot of deaths. Following the Pearl harbour attack by Japan, this resulted in the establishment of the Japanese Internment camps by Roosevelt. This was a policy that all people of Japanese descent were to be isolated in the camps. Zones were created in Washington, California and Oregon places where people from the Japanese ancestry were more populated, Roosevelt ordered the relocation of all these people.
The world war began in 1939, but it was not until 1941 that the United States joined the war even though other allied countries such as Canada and Australia joined forces with Britain and France against the Nazi aggression in Europe. After the World War I the United States was taken aback with the consequences of war which included the loss of life and the state of economic stalemate that the country came to due to the World War I. Back in 1939 the U.S. military was not as enhanced and equipped as it is today. Therefore, they viewed it as a significant risk participating in yet another war barely 20 years after the other war. Also, the fact that a majority of the Europe countries ended up having dictators after World War I, Americans, therefore, considered World War I a failure. This, therefore, encouraged most of the Americans not to get involved in the Second World War. If anything, some Americans considered this as a Europe issue and therefore thought they had no part to play in this war. However, Americans had a political dilemma as they felt as if they were obliged to join the fight and help their allies.
Political leaders such as Franklin Roosevelt were so eager to join the war; however, they never did. President Roosevelt felt the need to adhere to the foreign policy which had been crafted with the new deal. He believed that Americans had an essential role to play in the world; this was not as shocking as he considered Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson, Woodrow as his main political mentors. Despite the urge, Franklin Roosevelt chose to concentrate on the economic problems that the United States was going through at the time. Instead, to support the war indirectly, Roosevelt declared that the United States would provide American made weapons and other equipment to the allies through a leasing program.
As the years passed, the United States edged towards the war; however, their main breakpoint was the Japanese attack at the pearl harbour in 1941. This attack was not shocking as there was tension between Japan and the United States over the years; however, the violent attack was the one that officially forced the Americans to join the war. The allies together with the United States troops were able to fight the Germans and therefore ended World War II in 1945 with an atomic bomb in Japan.