e side of China, and it is because of this that FDR didn't acknowledge a state of war between China and Japan- because the mandatory arms embargo would harm China more than Japan. Eventually, the attack on Pearl Harbor would push the Americans into joining the war effort. There were many events that contributed to the US's entrance into the war, but the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was the "straw that broke the camel's back". The invasion of China was one event that made FDR want to enter the war (along with many others) and the attack was the event that gave him enough support in the country to do so. The Destroyer-Base Deal helped bring the US into the war, because it was yet another event to make it known that FDR and America was siding with the Allies- and their claims of neutrality were not reality. FDR knew that America was not allowed to sell munitions to warring nations, such as Great Britain so he made a deal with Britain to trade 50 aging warships for the free leasing of naval and air bases for 99 years. The leanings of the US were pro-ally, and the country could only continue leaning for so long before it fell into war. The Nye Committee was a condensation of the isolationist arguments that state that the US was pushed into war because American International bankers saw no other way to guarantee repayment of the immense war loans made to Allied nations. The event itself wasn't so much what helped lead the US to war, but the issues discussed by the committee were certainly valid points as to why the US became involved in the war. The Lend-Lease Act helped the US build up its defenses while still giving aid to the nations involved in the resistance against the Axis-powers. Again, the act helped the US "lean" towards joining the war without actually joining iteventually America would be "leaning" too far, and Pearl Harbor just gave FDR the excuse to cut the thread holding the US out of the war.One event that helped ...
