From Pearl Harbor To V-J Day Summary

From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day by D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells, Published January 1, 1995 Ivan R. Dee Publisher. 216 pages. The second world war was histories largest war in numbers of nations and soldiers, allotting to over sixty million total deaths and over four hundred thousand American Deaths. In the novel From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day, D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells tell the story of how America got pulled into World War II, the conflicts that America faced during World War II, and the obstacles that America overcame to help the rest of the world defeat German, Italian, and Japanese axis. The novel explains how Important of a role the United States of America plaid in World War II and how the United States and there allies Defeated the Germans, Italians, and the Japanese. In the novel all of World War II is covered from the point of view of America. I novel starts shortly before the Pearl Harbor …show more content…
The Novel went into great detail to explain how important the United States was during the war. Germany and Italy were successfully holding off from the rest of the United Nations and were gaining control over more and more of Europe every day. America like before World War I was trying to be an Isolated country and not get involved in other countries wars. They didn 't want to join the war and they probably wouldn 't have joined the war until the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Once the United States had been attacked and they declared war they became part of the war. The United States joining the war might have been the deciding factor between the Axis defeating the United Nations or The United Nations defeating the Axis. The United State was one of the biggest contributors of troops to the United Nations. If America had never joined the war, or joined even one or two years later than they had, the outcome could have been very different and the world could be very different