DIY-HP-LED
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No, FDR founded the UN and he and the majority of congress were liberal democrats, including the republicans. FDR was a pragmatist, but he supported the allied cause from the beginning, most were who were involved in WW1. He was trying to bring the public onside and was slowly shifting, BSC helped with that and was very active with the press and media. It was the blitz and the radio broadcasts from London that really shifted public opinion along with the invasion of western Europe, the threat became obvious to most people.Didn't America send a person to different battle fields to gauge on the ground who they thought was going to win the war so America didn't chose the losing side?
Then Pearl harbour happened and the choice was gone.
The American's were not cynically holding back waiting for Mother Russia to bleed the Germans dry, that is Stalinist disinformation, history doesn't work like that, it's complicated. The white trash and simpletons might have thought Hitler was OK, but those with brains who were running the place apprehended the danger and a good thing too. America was not completely unprepared when the Attack on Pearl Harbor happened, they were well on their way rearming and building ships which is why they sprang back so fast, the laws and system of military production were already in place, put there by the war department.