'''2. Was the United States right to enter World War II, and should we have entered sooner or later?'''
'''2. Was the United States right to enter World War II, and should we have entered sooner or later?'''
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It was wrong that we did not take more effort to protect ourselves from the events that lead up to our joining World War II, yet the events that did happen were legitimate reasons for our entering the war. Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. In theory, this was a legitimate reason to enter the war. However, it has been speculated that President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that Japan had made plans to attack Pearl Harbor, yet did nothing about it. Roosevelt had also worked hard to incite support in Congress and among the American public for joining the war before this. This incitation and the failure to protect Pearl Harbor were wrong, yet the actual act of joining the war after we were attacked was not.
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It was wrong that we did not take more effort to protect ourselves from the events that lead up to our joining World War II, yet the events that did happen were legitimate reasons for our entering the war. Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor in December 1941. In theory, this was a legitimate reason to enter the war. However, it has been speculated that President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that Japan had made plans to attack Pearl Harbor, yet did nothing about it. Roosevelt had also worked hard to incite support in Congress and among the American public for joining the war before this. This incitation and the failure to protect Pearl Harbor were wrong, yet the actual act of joining the war after we were attacked was not.