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Why Did The Us Enter Ww2

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World War II shocked the world in the 1900s. The United States had a ginormous evolvement in WW II. The US had struggled to officially declare our involvement in the war, until the bombing of Pearl Harbor that gave us an excuse to enter the war. The US prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor sent, was sending supplies to aid the Europeans in the war. The involvement of the United Sates in World War II is very significant to the outcome of the war, but how we got to enter the war and what happened before the war is very important to why we helped the war cause so greatly. Before we entered the war, we were helping out the allies, by sending supplies of food and ammunition for the cause. What helped us to enter the war was the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Japanese planes attacked our naval base in Pearl Harbor, which was located near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese attack lasted for two hours, managing to destroy 20 American ships, of which included eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. The Japanese also were able to kill over 2,000 American soldiers and wounded 1,000 more, able to send the entire country of the United States into an uproar.
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involvement in the war was the bombing they were able to throw at Germany constantly. Because the U.S. used the high altitude B-17, the bombing runs had to be done during the day so the pilots could hit their targets. Since, the bombers rarely had escorts during their bombing runs; the B-17 planes would fly in tight, box formations, which allowed the bombers to overlap their machine-gun fire for protection. The tight formations that the bombers flew in were also their weakness, allowing them to get hit from Luftwaffe fighters, making the U.S. bombing runs have a high number of casualties. Later on in the war, with the invention of the P-51 Mustang the number of casualties from the bombing runs dropped

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