The urgency of the situation intensified the debate in the United States over whether American interests were better served by staying out or getting involved. Isolationists believed that World War II was ultimately a dispute between foreign nations and that the United States had no good reason to get involved.

This document helps show that the Treaty of Versailles helped start World War II because it shown all of the land that Germany lost. They lost some cost line, places that have coal production, and lost a peice of land that connected them to another part of the country.

Louisiana emerged from World War II extensively changed by its wartime experiences. The rapid growth of the state’s defense industries created thousands of jobs and stimulated nearly two billion dollars in business, which helped bring Louisiana out of the Great Depression.

The United States didn’t want to intervene. During an emergency cabinet meeting called by Roosevelt immediately after the war erupted in Europe, it was agreed that the United States would remain an outside influence unless directly threatened or attacked.

What was Japan’s prirmary goal in taking part in WWII? Japan wanted to expand its empire and attacked Allied colonies to gain their territory as well as to get their resources. When they attacked the US and Allied colonies, it was in order to obtain the resources needed to fuel their military machine.

What was Japan’s real goal? Japan needed the region’s natural resources, especially oil and rubber, to carry on its war against China.

Faced with severe shortages of oil and other natural resources and driven by the ambition to displace the United States as the dominant Pacific power, Japan decided to attack the United States and British forces in Asia and seize the resources of Southeast Asia.

Why was japan unable to win the war in china? (B)Japan’s real goal was that they needed the regions natural resources in order to continue their war against China.

The Soviet Far Eastern reserves – 15 infantry divisions, 3 cavalry divisions, 1,700 tanks, and 1.500 aircraft – were deployed westward in the autumn of 1941 when Moscow learned that Japan would not attack the Soviet Far East, because it had made an irrevocable decision for southward expansion that would lead to war …

On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union officially declares war on Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army.

The US did not give any assurances to the Japanese that the monarchy would be retained. That’s one of the major reasons that the US insisted upon an unconditional surrender. The US left open the possibility of Hirohito being deposed and tried for war crimes, though ultimately we decided against going that route.