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WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [900]
but most Americans wanted to stay out of what they considered an European affair.
Nice try Schlomo.
It never fails that Zionists like yourself staunchly believe in the myth of an unbroken line between Jews (wherever they reside) and the Hebrews from millennia ago.
But when it comes to other migrant groups they somehow miraculously and completely shed their identities, affiliations, and affinities to their native homelands and ethnic groups as soon as they leave any given country in Europe and settle somewhere else like America.
Too bad for you but it never works that way.
Just like scores of surplus African and Middle Eastern migrants squatting in Germany today who speak their native languages at home and in the streets and even go back to their homelands to visit the same situation existed with German and German Jewish immigrants back in 20th century America.
Do a search for the German-American Bund holding rallies and marching for isolationism prior to America declaring war. They certainly didn't regard Europe as a place they never heard of before and wanted no part of. They knew full well that American entry into a war would lead to damage, destruction and death. Not of other US citizens or US property but of their familial and financial interests in their native and ancestral Germany which as ethnic and linguistic Germans and German Jews they were unwilling to fight against.
Regarding public sentiment in America prior to entering the war most actually were not in support of isolationism at all. The US Government's initial delay in entry was based on the weak American economy which was still emerging from the Great Depression. But as early as 1940 the conscription in the US was re-instituted. This was then followed in 1941 with the US Government lend-lease program. So there was no long standing opposition. It only came from a vocal portion of the population with interests and identities from back in Germany.
America as a country was responding to events in Europe and was able to quickly entered the war. 1939 - 1941 (with conscription and lend lease beginning in the interim) was a very short time frame.
In the end 16 million Americans fought in WWII. The US population at the time was 133 million.
No country could pull off that kind of committed involvement in a war if according to you "most Americans wanted to stay out of what they considered an (sic) European affair".
No possible pleading Churchill could have done would have swayed the American public.
Not true. Otherwise America would have never entered the war.