In Chapter 16 of A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn accuses the US of fighting a people's war but not truly adhering to the values...

In
Chapter 16 of , the author describes the contradictory actions of the US
government regarding the officially stated reason to enter World War II. The author believes
that World War II was erroneously thought to be a people's war by the American public but it was
not. He gives examples of the numerous times the American government became involved in the
internal matters of other governments, changed sides depending on the circumstances and reacted
only when its national interests were at stake. What the author means to say, in short, is that
the US government makes its decisions because they appear to be favorable to national interests
at that time, including the decision to go to war. According to Zinn, the US did not enter World
War II to rid the world of fascism and the prosecution of innocents by Nazi Germany, but to
further its interests in the world. 

When such an argument is evaluated, it
can only be an opinion at best, just as the...

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