An overview on World War Two, overview what they american public felt about the war, what brought it about and how it ended.

The Second World War Americans in the 1930 did not want anything to do with the war going on over seas. This was partially due to the first World War. A large majority thought that the United States had made a mistake to fight in 1917 and did not want to make the same mistake twice. It all started in 1931 when Japan invaded and soon conquered the northern Chinese province of Manchuria. By doing this they added …

…spring of 1945. With German out of the way America planned to bomb Japan into submission while their army was in China. America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. The first bomb was dropped on August 6 at Hiroshima which killed at least eighty thousand people and poisoned countless other with radiation. The Japanese still not willing to give up received another bomb on August 9th that took another forty thousand lives. Japan surrendered formally on September 2.