You have to remember also, people had no idea of the vile things being done under Hitler's rule - genocide, death camps, ethnic persecution, etc - that didn't come to light until the last few months of the war when our troops actually entered Germany. In 1940/41, it was still very easy to take the view that it was none of our beeswax.

But that didn't mean we were totally asleep at the wheel - even with a large isolationist segment of the population, we'd already started large naval and other rearmament programs rolling, along with the draft, in 1940 and early 1941, just in case someone decided to make it our beeswax - ie, Pearl Harbor, and then Hitler declaring war on the U.S. first.

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