US Foreign Policy led to the Outbreak of World War II

 US Foreign Policy led to the Outbreak of World War II
Although there are studies that illustrated that there were many causes of the World War II, United States’ Foreign policy played a great role in the same. The conflict between United States and Japan contributed greatly to the World War II. Japan was mainly interested in raw materials from China and since the market was being occupied by United States and other countries from Europe, Japan had to struggle to achieve its main goal. Japan started by invading China in the year 1973 to expel the western powers from the region. However, since Japan was not responding to the talks that were being conducted, America decided to freeze all the assets from Japan with an aim preventing Japan from importing oil. Worse still, other countries like United Kingdom and Netherlands also did the same. Since Japan refused to comply, it ended up attacking United States and the same contributed to the world war. Therefore, were it not for the fact that United States believed that it was supposed to control other countries in the world like China economically, a conflict would not have erupted.

Failure of United States to support the League of Nations also played a great role in the emergence of the World War II. The organizations was formed immediately after the World War I with an aim of preventing the emergence of any war in future by disarming other countries, use of diplomacy to settle disputes, improving the global welfare as well as enhancing security collectively. Most surprisingly, United States refused to join the League despite the fat that the president by then was the founding member of the organization. The organization was dependent on the member countries for financial as well as any other support necessary to achieve its main goals and obligation. Therefore, due to lack of support from significant nations like United States, the nation’s league was not able to solve major conflicts that led to the emergence of the Second World War. Although the organization lacked the military personnel, absence of United States was a major contributory factor to its failure.