Chapter 25

This chapter talked about War World 11. The United States didnt suffer no invasion, no bombings, and no massive killings. It actually lifted the US out of the great depression and many went into the middle class. ( I was shocked when I read this) Yes, the US was doing good and prospered but the "good war" had negative effects on the South Pacific. The E.B Sledge experience  was brutal, the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa was fatal and a war without mercy. This chapter also mentions how Roosevelt committed himself to an internationalist in Latin America. Troops were taken out from Haiti and lowered its profile in Panama. However they did put pressure on the government of Cuba and wanted to change Mexico's oil policy. 

This chapter describes the rise of dictators in Germany, Italy, and Japan. The biggest dictator was Adolf Hitler in Germany creating the Nazi party. The creation of Neutrality Acts passed in the 1930s to keep the US out of any European wars. (I would be all for this act because the US could not afford to be in any wars)  Americans generally remained isolationist, they didnt approve of the war. When the war did start in Europe, FDR increased military funding. What really gets me upset is how the American people and government basically ignored the cries for help from the Jews trying to escape Germany. (How can we not interfere and at least try to help them out?) Although the Americans didn't want to be involved in the War, FDR persuade congress to amend the Neutrality Acts to allow the belligerents to purchase weapons from the US. (only if they paid cash and carried the weapons in their own ships) He basically went behind his countries back and took matter into his own hands. All these wars happening all at once should have warned the US that something big was about to happen. The US tries to be neutral be somehow never conquers. The Pearl Harbor attack surprised the US and that is what drew the US into the war. 

Too much war happening but for some reason the US gains from wars!