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The USA DID NOT become involved in the war in Europe in 1940, because the USA did not ENTER the war until AFTER the Japanese attack on Hawaii in December of 1941. In fact the USA did not manage to send ground troops to the United Kingdon until the later part of 1942, and those troops did not see any actual combat action until the summer of 1943, in North Africa, then in Sicily and then in Italy.
The vast majority of the US forces that were sent to Europe were in action for less than a year, from the D-Day landings in June of 1944 to the end of the fighting in the European theatre of war, in April of 1945.
Jim Bunting. Toronto.
AnswerHitler declared war on the USA 3 days after Pearl Harbour. Germany & Japan were allies. (1941, not 1940)
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How did the US finance World War 2?
The U.S. financed the war through war bonds and the Revenue Act of 1942.The Revenue Act of 1940 and war bonds.
Soldiers served US in 1940?
The US had a standing Army & Navy in 1940.
US preparations for war?
Despite being officially neutral, after 1940 the US begain to increase its spending on defense and passed the first peacetime military draft
What event caused the US to become directly involved in the War?
Gulf of Tulkon incident.
How many American armed services personned served in World War 2?
More than 16 million. This was 10% of the US population in 1940, of 160 million. 10% was thought to be the maximum that could be taken for uniformed service without beginning to harm war production on the home front. Over half of the 16 million served in the US Army, and more than an additional 2 million in the US Army Air Force, all under the command of US Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. The US Air Force did not become an independent branch of the service until after the war was over, in 1947, and was a part of the US Army throughout WWII.
