Because the war was 'over there' - it was a European problem and you have to remember that in the US was grappling with the Great Depression so to a certain extent, many felt the US had enough to worry about.
Americans wanted to withdraw into an isolationist position.
Americans were encouraged to become more isolationist.
In 1937 Roosevelt tried to alter the isolationist mood of Americans by stating that agression anywhere in the world could affect all nations.
World War II and its related unemployment in the United States led to America's isolationist stance to erode during the 1940s.
World War II and its related unemployment in the United States led to America's isolationist stance to erode during the 1940s.
The United States proclaimed its neutrality and isolationist policies while Europe was being split up and fighting.
Americans were strongly isolationist in the first half of the 20th century and considered World War 1 to be a "European War" in "far-off lands". They did not wish to get entangled in that debacle.
Very few Americans and Canadians remained isolationists after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. It was an overnight sensation. Anger turned Americans into people who wanted to fight and get revenge. They did. Many of the Canadians went to the war in the Pacific too.
There was a large isolationist movement.Many Irish Americans supported the Central Powers.Many German Americans favored the central powers
The US was isolationist and unwilling to meddle in European affairs.
If not for the isolationist policy held by America, World War One might have been over more quickly.In the late 1920s, British politicians wanted to be isolationist.
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