History of War

WHY DIDN’T THE US GET INVOLVED IMMEDIATELY?

War in Europe had been coming for some time. Throughout the 1930s, the Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, had come to control Germany ever more tightly, and the country’s ambitions were being laid bare with the remilitarisation of the Rhineland, the incorporation of Austria (Anschluss) and the partition of Czechoslovakia.

Britain was certainly aware of the potential consequences as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sought an agreement with Hitler, prematurely declaring “peace for our time” on 30 September 1938. The United

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