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It is important to realize that up until Pearl Harbor, and even after, public sentiment did not support our getting personally involved in the European war. Roosevelt's hands were tied and he was only able to send equipment and material aid rather than troops. All this changed when Hitler allowed himself to be swindled by his Japanese allies. Hitler wanted Japan to attack the Soviet Union, which would have probably been enough to crush them …

…U.S to maintain nuetrality was simply out of the question, and impossible to enforce. We should have bit the bullet and not hesitated and used force to keep Germany at bay, but they had enough time to grow and become more powerful. The United States' policy of isolationism was a terrible plan, in my opinion, and should have been replaced with a plan that called for immediate war and involvment in the European conflict.