Question

What was the u.s. reaction to the beginnings of war in europe in 1939?

Answer 1

During the first 3 years of the war, from 1939 until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States maintained a policy of neutrality regarding the conflict.

Both its politicians and society considered that it was a European war, with no relation to American interests and the tranquility of its people. While the Franklin Roosevelt government sympathized with the allies and their cause, they did not get involved militarily in the conflict, but through commercial and logistic concessions to countries such as Britain and France.

Answer 2

The United States offered many more Europeans a chance to immigrate. Congress encouraged the League of Nations to help. The United States began mobilising troops to get ready for war. Congress stressed isolationism and passed five neutrality laws.