Destroying the Base at Pearl Harbor Would Mean Japan Controlled the Pacific. Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would drive the United States out of isolation and into World War II, a conflict that would end with Japan’s surrender after the devastating nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

* The rights could not be taken away except upon evidence of a criminal act and conviction in a court of law. Yet, Japanese Americans were deprived of their liberty and property by being forcibly removed from their homes and locked up in detention camps without the required statement of charges and trial by jury.

All three branches of the federal government, as well as the states, affected civil liberties during the war. Congress for its part enacted the draconian Smith Act of 1940, a criminal-syndicalism statute that also banned organizing and belonging to groups seeking overthrow of government by force and violence.

The sedition acts, the Palmer Raids, and the internment of Japanese Americans are just three of the most infamous violations of civil liberties during times of crises, in which the First Amendment and the rights of immigrants and minorities were clearly violated.

In practice, this led to the forced relocation and internment of more than 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps for the duration of the war. Wartime hysteria and racial prejudice pushed the country’s leadership to violate rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.

Civil liberties were restricted during World War I through the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, which were used to ban and punish criticism of the government and war. Additionally, some immigrants were arrested, denied a hearing, and deported because they were believed to support the Germans.

During the war, more than 2,000 men and women were arrested for “disloyal” speech, and over 1200 went to jail. In addition to these attacks on free speech, the government violated basic legal protections in other ways. Some conscientious objectors were court-martialed and mistreated in military prisons.

World War I featured a pattern of serious repression of speech considered disloyal. Legal historian Paul Murphy explained in his scholarship that the speech repressions during World War I created the modern civil liberties movement.

Germany

Sinking of American merchant ships In early 1917, Kaiser Wilhelm II forced the issue. His declared decision on 31 January 1917 to target neutral shipping in a designated war-zone became the immediate cause of the entry of the United States into the war.

If USA joined in faster in WW1 (which would be pretty impossible to do in real life), seeing how their quest for war will also be shattered by the horrificness for war. Although, the Allies will win faster and Italy might even join the Allies faster. American casualties will be more and even can be the most.

The U.S. entered World War I because Germany embarked on a deadly gamble. Germany sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles which prompted the American entry into the war.

By 1917, the war had settled into a stalemate. Thus, even though American forces did not actually enter into the fighting in 1917, the fact that the US entered the war in that year makes it the turning point of WWI.

France

Cavalrymen used the term to deride foot soldiers, because the brass buttons on their uniforms looked like the flour dumplings or dough cakes called “doughboys”, or because of the flour or pipe clay which the soldiers used to polish their white belts.