The+United+States+of+America

The United States entered World War II rather late in the game. Britain's army was already smashed to smithereens and the Soviet Union was not yet able to rally their troops yet. The US involvment was actually not on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's own will but rather, the Japanese forced it upon the US. On December 7th, 1941, the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. In only 2 hours, the Japanese aircraft destroyed 14 naval ships and over 2,000 personnel were killed or wounded. With this surprise attack, the United States offically entered the war on the side of the Allies. The first thing the United States did was to send an expeditionary force to North Africa to support the British offensive. At the same time, America also increased the merchant ships going to England and the secort vessels protecting those ships. Along with this task, the United States also began its rearmament program, which took only an amazing 2 years or less to complete. With its army renewed and economy rolled into military production, the United States bacame a monstrous force, unmatched by any other in the world.