I don't buy that personally. Mostly cause FDR was trying to get involved. In fact that USN kinda harmed the neutrality and had Japan not bombed Pearl Harbor, could have regardless caused other neutral powers to side more with the Axis due to the us not respecting international law in term of neutral powers. US ships engaged at least 1 U-Boat during the Niblack incident
The US risked sending other neutrals into the arms of or preferring the Axis with these actions, as well as giving ammo to the isolationists domestically. However it was sorta inevitable that a fight would occur. Japanese interests required the US territory in the Pacific. Germany invading the UK also would have been probably to far for the US general public. I think we overstate the opinions of the government and the industrialists when it comes to general American sentiment, especially once 1940-41 rolls around.
But yes WW2 starts in Europe at LEAST with the annexing of Czechoslovakia, and broadly with Ethiopia in terms of that part of the hemisphere, and really with Manchuria in 1931. Hell despite not fighting Japan again till the invasion of Manchuria at the end of the war, the Soviets and Mongolia had fought them brilliantly in the battle of Khalkin Gol in 1939.
I don't buy that personally. Mostly cause FDR was trying to get involved. In fact that USN kinda harmed the neutrality and had Japan not bombed Pearl Harbor, could have regardless caused other neutral powers to side more with the Axis due to the us not respecting international law in term of neutral powers. US ships engaged at least 1 U-Boat during the Niblack incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_engagement_of_neutral_United_States_in_World_War_II_before_the_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
The US risked sending other neutrals into the arms of or preferring the Axis with these actions, as well as giving ammo to the isolationists domestically. However it was sorta inevitable that a fight would occur. Japanese interests required the US territory in the Pacific. Germany invading the UK also would have been probably to far for the US general public. I think we overstate the opinions of the government and the industrialists when it comes to general American sentiment, especially once 1940-41 rolls around.
But yes WW2 starts in Europe at LEAST with the annexing of Czechoslovakia, and broadly with Ethiopia in terms of that part of the hemisphere, and really with Manchuria in 1931. Hell despite not fighting Japan again till the invasion of Manchuria at the end of the war, the Soviets and Mongolia had fought them brilliantly in the battle of Khalkin Gol in 1939.
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aw thank you