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The majority of Americans were against sending American soldiers to fight in Europe or in the Pacific war zone, before the sneak attack on the US Military ships, airfields and bases of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, before any declaration of war against America. The cowardly sneak attack was a knockout-punch-strategy aimed at crippling the American Navy in the Pacific and keeping America out of the fighting in the Pacific.

In fact, history has shown us that President Roosevelt wanted to help the English and French democracies fight ( and did so secretly ) but didn't want to lose the next election by making such an unpopular decision.

However, the morning after the news broke of the large numbers of dead or wounded Americans as a result of the surprise bombing, and the brutal machine-gunning of hospitals and other non-military targets, the American people changed their opinions quickly. The military struggles in Europe, Africa and Asia suddenly, were no longer "someone else's battles" to be ignored by Americans.

Long lines of eager young men at military recruiting offices across the country sprang up immediately. The vast majority of Americans wanted America to fight back immediately.

Now the President could publicly make plans to repay the Japanese military for their treachery, and also to help the European nations being rapidly swallowed up by the Hitler Dictatorship's overwhelmingly powerful military machine.

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