Would we have joined World War two if japan didn attack pearl harbor?
Of course we would have. President Roosevelt had started the Nation’s first peacetime draft in history, starting in 1939, before the war began. Before the draft, the US had around 100,000 active duty soldiers. A year after the draft, we had over a million. By the end of the war we had over twelve million soldiers. Roosevelt’s massive pre-war military expansion was a precautionary measure; he could smell a storm coming, and we needed to be ready Consider how world war one played out. We stayed on the sidelines and watched the Europeans kick the snot out of each other for three years. But we were not neutral. From the beginning of the war, we wanted Great Britain to win, because we knew our seas would not protect us from the world’s turmoil much longer, and we needed good friends on the other side of the ocean. So even though we didn’t fight until 1917, we kept sending food and war material to the Allies, which kept them in the game against Germany. Germany realised that as long as we ke
