America's Involvment In The War
America tried to stay out of the on going World War II at the time. The United States President, Frankiln D. Roosevelt however knew we would get involved somehow, and as we now all know, we eventually did. In the year 1941, Japan and Nazi Germany decided to try and diminish America's powers as because they knew we would get involved somehow so the country's leaders decided it was best to attack America first, catch us by surprise. This plan was obviously futile as America had so much more military resources then Japan and Nazi Germany. The Japanese tried it anyway; so on December 7th 1941 Japan sent forces towards the United States military base in the island of Hawaii. This attack is now known as the attack on Pearl Harbor. Many Japanese planes bombed, shot up, and blew up American ships, buildings, and soldiers. More than two thousand American soldiers and sailors died at this attack, many more were wounded. The day after this attack, Franklin D. Roosevelt explained to the nation what happened and followed by asking congress to declare war on the Japanese Empire for what they had done. The people of America were outraged and supported the president. Congress as well supported the president and the notion was carried with only one opposing vote. Within the following days, Japan's allies saw this "signal" and countered by declaring war on the United States. At this point in time, the United States was at war with Japan, Germany, and Italy. Complete chaos was going down. So within the following month, the United States prepared it's army for conflict. Even though the United States had a huge military force, we feared it was not enough. Due to this need, we recruited many young men and in some cases women who were willing to fight for their country. The government even put out military propaganda to encourage people back at home to either enlist themselves for the army, or to encourage people back home to help out for the war cause. For an example, some women, due to encouraging propaganda, went to local factories and started helping manufacture military supplies such as weapons, ammo, cars, etc.. One of the most famous, well known propaganda made for to encourage women to work in the factories are the "Rosie the Riveter" chain of propaganda. This was the woman you saw who looked strong and was working hard with a tool to encourage women to work the job their husbands left behind.
The second battle that the United States participated in was the Battle of Midway which took place on June 4th, 1942. This battle was a very important battle to America for a couple of reasons. The first one is that the Americans were filled with rage about Pearl Harbor and were ready to kill every Japanese soldier that walked into their field of view. The second reason is that the Americans were going to use their remaining battleships that were posted at Hawaii against the Japanese meaning if we lost the battle, the Americans lost the majority of their naval fleet near Hawaii. The Japanese Empire planned for this attack to be a surprise however because Americans already predicted something like this happening, we spent money and resources paying very intelligent people to decode the Japanese's secret messages. We figure out about the surprise attack around the month of May. The United States also decoded other Axis' nations secret codes like the Germans and Italians. However, because we spent a good amount of resources decoding the language, we did not want any nation suspecting we knew the codes, so America pretended so not know of some "surprise attacks" and risked losing a couple of troops. America ended up winning the Battle of Midway. American bombers and naval ships eliminated a good amount of the Japanese Empire's naval fleet. The Japanese soldiers and sailors were sent back to base with a defeat, at least what was left of the Japanese fleet.
The most famous battle that the United States took place in was "D-Day". This was a battle that many Allied and Axis soldiers died in. So much preparation went into this one, very important, and dangerous battle. The purpose of this battle was to liberate the Nazi control in Western Europe and abolish Adolf Hitler's control one and for all. If the Allies lost this battle, it would mean that Adolf Hitler would have most likley won the war and the Allies would have been obliterated by Hitler. So as you can see, the importance of this battle goes without saying. In order to win this battle, the Allies prepared their plan with many possibilities in mind. The Allies even went as far as creating a huge distraction to confuse the Axis' forces into thinking the battle was somewhere else in France.
Around the months of January 1944, the Allies launched the diversion to make the Axis' believe the attacked was going to be focused in Pas-de-Calais. There were many factors that lead to the confusion of the Axis. There were double agents, "faulty radios" that gave away "vital information", fake equipment such as radios, weapons/ammo caches, and other neccecities, and even a fake army commanded by George Patton just to confuse the Axis. All of this money and resources were used to only confuse the Axis. As you can see this battle was very important to the Allies success and they were willing to do anything for this win. It all paid off however as because on June 6, 1944, the Axis powers in Western Europe had no idea the Allies would storm the Beach of Normandy. Thousands of allied ships, soldiers, and sailors were present at this battle. The soldiers were taken onto shore by small boats and then they started a terrifying run towards cover or they would recieve a bullet to the face. After a long battle of bullets flying and explosions booming, the Allies finally over took the Axis' control in Normandy. This was a big win for the allies and finally meant that Hitler's reign was coming to an end with the U.S. and Britan coming from the West and Russia coming from the East. If the United States did not support the Allies in this major attack for some reason, the Allies might not have won the battle that turned the tide of the war.
After D-Day, America had several other small conflicts during the war. They were important towards the progress of the war however they were not "tide changing" like D-Day or Pearl Harbor. The only other important event that America was involved in was Hiroshima and Nagazaki. These Japanese cities are of course where the United States of America dropped two nuclear bombs that trully ended the war. After the war ended, America being the humble republic government that they are, helped out Japan and other countries rebuild. America sent a great amount of aid towards Japan as because they felt sorry for the drastic measures that they took (Laying waste to Hiroshima and Nagasaki). After helping rebuild, America and other nations that participated in World War II got together to make rules and other things like that to prevent something like this from ever happening again.
The second battle that the United States participated in was the Battle of Midway which took place on June 4th, 1942. This battle was a very important battle to America for a couple of reasons. The first one is that the Americans were filled with rage about Pearl Harbor and were ready to kill every Japanese soldier that walked into their field of view. The second reason is that the Americans were going to use their remaining battleships that were posted at Hawaii against the Japanese meaning if we lost the battle, the Americans lost the majority of their naval fleet near Hawaii. The Japanese Empire planned for this attack to be a surprise however because Americans already predicted something like this happening, we spent money and resources paying very intelligent people to decode the Japanese's secret messages. We figure out about the surprise attack around the month of May. The United States also decoded other Axis' nations secret codes like the Germans and Italians. However, because we spent a good amount of resources decoding the language, we did not want any nation suspecting we knew the codes, so America pretended so not know of some "surprise attacks" and risked losing a couple of troops. America ended up winning the Battle of Midway. American bombers and naval ships eliminated a good amount of the Japanese Empire's naval fleet. The Japanese soldiers and sailors were sent back to base with a defeat, at least what was left of the Japanese fleet.
The most famous battle that the United States took place in was "D-Day". This was a battle that many Allied and Axis soldiers died in. So much preparation went into this one, very important, and dangerous battle. The purpose of this battle was to liberate the Nazi control in Western Europe and abolish Adolf Hitler's control one and for all. If the Allies lost this battle, it would mean that Adolf Hitler would have most likley won the war and the Allies would have been obliterated by Hitler. So as you can see, the importance of this battle goes without saying. In order to win this battle, the Allies prepared their plan with many possibilities in mind. The Allies even went as far as creating a huge distraction to confuse the Axis' forces into thinking the battle was somewhere else in France.
Around the months of January 1944, the Allies launched the diversion to make the Axis' believe the attacked was going to be focused in Pas-de-Calais. There were many factors that lead to the confusion of the Axis. There were double agents, "faulty radios" that gave away "vital information", fake equipment such as radios, weapons/ammo caches, and other neccecities, and even a fake army commanded by George Patton just to confuse the Axis. All of this money and resources were used to only confuse the Axis. As you can see this battle was very important to the Allies success and they were willing to do anything for this win. It all paid off however as because on June 6, 1944, the Axis powers in Western Europe had no idea the Allies would storm the Beach of Normandy. Thousands of allied ships, soldiers, and sailors were present at this battle. The soldiers were taken onto shore by small boats and then they started a terrifying run towards cover or they would recieve a bullet to the face. After a long battle of bullets flying and explosions booming, the Allies finally over took the Axis' control in Normandy. This was a big win for the allies and finally meant that Hitler's reign was coming to an end with the U.S. and Britan coming from the West and Russia coming from the East. If the United States did not support the Allies in this major attack for some reason, the Allies might not have won the battle that turned the tide of the war.
After D-Day, America had several other small conflicts during the war. They were important towards the progress of the war however they were not "tide changing" like D-Day or Pearl Harbor. The only other important event that America was involved in was Hiroshima and Nagazaki. These Japanese cities are of course where the United States of America dropped two nuclear bombs that trully ended the war. After the war ended, America being the humble republic government that they are, helped out Japan and other countries rebuild. America sent a great amount of aid towards Japan as because they felt sorry for the drastic measures that they took (Laying waste to Hiroshima and Nagasaki). After helping rebuild, America and other nations that participated in World War II got together to make rules and other things like that to prevent something like this from ever happening again.
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