The United States tried to remain neutral in all of the conflicts that was occurring within Germany, Japan, and Italy. “The United States had entangled itself in China and entered a long-term rivalry with Japan for power in the Pacific, a competition that would culminated …show more content…
Auschwitz and many other concentration camps were set up to systematically murder those the army and killing squad had rounded up or to put them into slavery. There were many of these concentration camps set up across Europe and several were even devoted to only exterminating or murdering people. From the years of 1939-1945 the SS (part of the Nazi army) were responsible for deaths of 11-14 million people which included about 2/3s of the European Jewish population or 6 million people. In addition they killed between 200,000 and 1.5 million Romanis, often called gypsies. Most of which were gassed while others starved or died of …show more content…
Despite this, “Roosevelt hesitated to declare war and insisted that the United States would defend itself only against a direct attack” (Henretta et al., 2015, p. 700). He know however that a war was inevitable. “The crucial provocation came not from Germany but from Japan” (Henretta et al., 2015, p. 701). The United States tried restricting trade with Japan in hopes it would deter their aggression. He froze their assets and stopped all United States trade. These sanctions did not deter aggression, as hoped, but only fueled aggression. The US knew Japan was planning an attack however they did not know where it would