HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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The policy of isolationism discouraged foreign attacks.
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Latin Americans provided a buffer zone from acts of aggression by others.
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Geographic isolation kept America protected from most of the fighting.
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U.S. military fortifications prevented attacks on U.S. soil.
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Detailed explanation-1: -America’s response to World War II was the most extraordinary mobilization of an idle economy in the history of the world. During the war 17 million new civilian jobs were created, industrial productivity increased by 96 percent, and corporate profits after taxes doubled.
Detailed explanation-2: -The World War II period resulted in the largest number of people migrating within the United States, in the history of the country. Individuals and families relocated to industrial centers for good paying war jobs, and out of a sense of patriotic duty.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Attack On Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.
Detailed explanation-4: -The immediate precipitating event was the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939, and the subsequent declarations of war on Germany made by Britain and France, but many other prior events have been suggested as ultimate causes.