Mike, there's a difference between a "World War" and war all over the world.
After all a
major power like the United States, with its colonies, wasn't embroiled (don't
count
Lend-Lease and trade of old destroyers for Atlantic bases). The naming of that
war from
1939-1945 was an American contribution to the war effort and Roosevelt's
efforts to secure
a Europe first strategy. In fact, it's been strongly argued that if Germany
hadn't
declared war on the U.S. on December 8th, it would have been problematical
whether the
U.S. would have entered the European war or, at least, given it priority over
the
apparently more threatening Pacific campaign, given American isolationist
attitudes
towards Europe stemming from the post-1918 attitudes and actions of the
European power, as
well as the fact that American imperial and colonial interests were in the
Pacific. The
war was given the propagandistic name of World War II in order to link Germany
to the
blame for the horrors of the "Great War" which suddenly became World War I. It
was a way
of saying that Germany hadn't learned its lesson and that we had to get in the
European
theater and give it priori concentration. The Chinese became our allies, not
because they
were democratic, but only because they were the enemies or our enemies who had
overrun
U.S. possessions throughout the Pacific and American controlled colonial
enclaves in China
(long story).
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmier
http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/
Department of History
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