Roosevelt had declared American neutrality. He did this to protect the country from joining the war and being in combat, yet he was still in support of Great Britain. All though all of America was horrified in the actions of the Germans in WWII they still favored neutrality over going into war. Although Roosevelt knew Congress would not declare war he at least found a way around it to supple aid to the foes of the German 's. He created a bill that would allow him to sell weapons to those nations on a "cash and carry ' basis. "President FDR declared American Neutrality when WWII erupted in September 1939." (Campbell) With FDR believing that we should not enter the war, many people at this time agreed very much with him, since The Great Depression was in progress and World War I had only just recently ended. But there were still people who didn’t agree with him at all. "In late September 1939, he asked Congress to revise the Neutrality Act to allow the sale of weapons to nations at war on a "cash and carry" basis." (Campbell) Even though at fist FDR was very much towards being neutral he still wanted to support Europe in their efforts to end the war. By doing so he wanted to create some laws that would give the United States the ability to support Europe without getting involved right into the war, but still roped the United States somewhat into the war. "Most Americans detested the Nazi dictatorship, yet they favored …show more content…
There were too many underlying facts that would force the United States into joining the war. No matter what we did in World War I or World War II the U.S. made efforts towards staying out but did other things that would pull us in. With the United States helping Europe in a time of war, without just sending them supplies like we did in World War I over ships, we enacted laws to give us ways to help them. With the Nazi’s, and with the other countries possibly knowing this also, the U.S. realistically threw itself into the war. In both wars with the United States helping the other countries in a time of war led to consequences we could not have seen. The major one is the bombing of Pearl Harbor which pulled the United States right into the