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Originally Posted by Enkidu22
For all people who hold USA side in this discussion: USA become major world power becouse they made tons of money selling weapons and supplies to european countries during WW I and WW II. They would join WW II even if JN didn't attack Pearl Harbour becouse if Axis won the war they wouldn't get paid for all supplies sold to allied nations under Land Lease program! Also most (if not all) of WW II specialists agree that USA was preparing to go to war since it begun (hence the Manhattan program), japanese officers knew this and they wanted to make the first strike.
Also in Wietnam losses amongst civilians were highest in the history of warfare! And they still say that they went there to help! I only hope it won't end like that in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's not like I'm anti-american, every nation has it's sins, but really it amuses me how people don't understand their own history.
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America gave a great deal of aid to the Allies even when it became apparent that they could not pay for it, it wasn't (just) about the money.
And as I said before, the Manhattan Project didn't begin until AFTER we entered the war. There were efforts to explore atomic energy before that, but the Manhattan Project, which was the effort to actually build a weapon or bomb using atomic energy, wasn't started until after Pearl Harbor, so there's no way Japan could have knew about it and attacked us for it. Heck, it was still a secret years later.