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Even though that was the official policy, FDR was sending both secret and not-so-secret (Eagle Squadrons) aid to Churchill, and the AVG (aka Flying Tigers) were deployed in China far in advance of 7 December.The US was extremely isolationalist prior to WW2. There was those called 'Hawk' that saw the trouble coming, but it was the isolation policies that kept us blind to what was going on.
All out war broke out in Europe in late '39. France didn't exist in late '40, England was almost bombed into submittion '40, the Eastern have of Russa was in German hands. To say that the state of affairs in Europe was 'not so bad' was a complete and utter lie in '41
Yet it wasn't till Dec of '41 that we were FORCED into the game. The US Government actually believed that what happens over there didn't matter ... What did we care what the Germans were doing, it didn't effect us
Sending aid behind the scenes while publicly proclaiming neutrality isn't "sitting on your hands".So you don't like word ... Fine ... What word would you use to discribe a country that sits on it's hands as a tyrant proceeds to concure Europe?
Lend lease is our way of attempting to say (after the fact) that we cared. What an empty statement that must have been to the poles and French
What do you call American aircraft, flown by American pilots under the Nationalist Chinese flag, deployed and engaging Japanese aircraft prior to any declaration of war?Provoking is parking a battle fleet off their coast and saying "What? Bitch" ...
Well, we had a bunch of military conservatives that thought that Goddard was nuts.
You need to do better than that rocky. There were few conservatives in the FDR administration. As a mater of fact the Brits were also shocked about the communist infiltration in the FDR administration. The dying (probably mentally impared due to strokes) president used to call the monster of Russia "uncle Joe" with cheap jokes at the expense of Churchill.