Just a suggestion: you might want to take a look at "1984" by George Orwell, which was written shortly after WW2 and which describes a fictional dystopian future in which the war never ended, and which includes the following view (which was probably the one held by the author) of how the situation came about:
"To understand the nature of the present war - for in spite of the regrouping which occurs every few years, it is always the same war - one must realize in the first place that it is impossible for it to be decisive. None of the three superstates could be definitely conquered even by the other two in combination. They are too evenly matched, and their natural defenses are too formidable. Eurasia is protected by its vast land spaces, Oceania by the width of the Atlantic and the Pacific, Eastasia by the fecundicity and industriousness of its inhabitants. Secondly, there is no longer, in a material sense, anything to fight about. With the establishment of self-contained economies, in which production and consumption are geared to one another, the scramble for markets which was a main cause of previous wars has come to an end, while the competition for raw materials is no longer a matter of life and death. In any case, each of the three superstates is so vast that it can obtain almost all of the materials that it needs within its own boundaries. In so far as war has a direct economic purpose, it is a war for labor power."
You could take that view as a starting point, looking at the trade disputes between the Empire of Japan and the United States during the 1930s which culminated in Pearl Harbor, and consider how economic considerations might have impacted on the United States's intervention in Western Europe. (Apart from anything else, "1984" is a rattling good read, and as relevant now as it was when it was written.)
what were the major consequences and results of ww11? in the U.S.? in the world? for america future?
what were the major domestic consequences of the cold war?
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