What frictions, if any, divided the nation during the war?
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes bombed American ships in Pearl Harbor. In the blink of an eye, the United States was at war. The attack took place in Hawaii, but it dramatically changed attitudes on the mainland about the war and America's involvement in it. From the sentiment of the American people in 1941, before December 7th, the nation was a divided people. It wasn't a civil war going on, but there was a great deal of argument about whether we ought to or ought not to enter the war.
Only 20 years earlier, World War I had been proclaimed the "war to end all war." And yet, once again, Americans were being called on to fight on European soil. So it wasn't the 'war to end all war,' and it would be silly for the United States to get involved in another bloodbath like that—or so 40 percent or more of the American people believed on December 6, 1941 (Stoler & Gustafson, p. 100). Then the attack......

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Title: What Divided The Nation During Wwii?
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