While Hitler was killing 20 million Europeans, why did FDR do nothing until Hitler declared war on the US ?
Question: Do you think it was because as a devote liberal, FDR:
Was too busy with his 30+ socialist programs to notice.
or
Had spent too much money on his 30+ social programs to have any money left over to help
or
Like the attitude of liberals today, the Germans who had been vidtimized by the Treaty of Versailles weren't killing us so why should he care
Answers: We entered WWII after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, not because Hitler declared war on America, it was common knowledge that Hitler wanted to take over the world. It wasn't 20 million people it was 11-12 million. if you really want to place the blame anywhere but the Nazis and Fascists then you should blame France and Britain and the other Allies that attend the Munich Conference. It was here that the policy of appeasement was applied towards Hitler. Appeasement if you don't know is the act of giving in to enemies in order to avoid war. Britain and France allowed hitler to take over the Rhineland and it was only after hitler's invasion of Poland that the rest of Europe declared war. Also the blame lies with the individals that lived in areas surrounding the concentration camps that swore after the war that they had no idea what was going on in their backyards (as if the smell of rotting and burning flesh isn't and obvious give away!!) and FDR's New Deal Programs helped to pull us out of the Great Depression as opposed to Hoover who didn't try to help the unemployed and starving people that were being thrown from their homes!
Because we didn't want to get involved with the war in the first place.
The same reason Bush has done nothing Darfur. the US has nothing to gain from it
Besides, Hitler didn't kill 20 million people in Europe before the US got involved. Learn some history, jackass.
How exactly were the Germans vicitimized?
It's because he wasn't a REAL MAN, like George Bush!
Because Americans and their congressmen were doing everything in their power to stay out of the war. The President was simply bowing to the will of the people and nothing more. No shame in that, hindsight is always 20/20.
FDR was having dreams about the Monroe Doctrine.
France said they had it under control
Actually the reason lies with that he did not want to side with either the allies or germans/japanese/italians. The American people did not want another war and believed that the germans would leave america alone. Actually FDR wanted to join the war to help the allies.
Most Americans did not want to get involved in another European war. Roosevelt knew it was innevitable, knew the Germans and Japanese both intended to attack, and knew the cost in American lives would be greater the longer he waited, but most liberals consider him one of their heroes. Go figure.
At the time the US was a very apathetic country, especially towards world affairs that didn't seem to directly concern us. Plus, we didn't really know about the holocaust until at or near the very end of WWII in Europe. So the inaction wasn't entirely FDR's fault.
Because america is selfish.
they only react when their economy / nation being disturbed.
Maybe you should be asking
While Bush was killing-injuring
thousands to possibly millions of innocent folks...
why did the USA sit by and do nothing...
until it was too late?
You are very wrong in thinking that FDR did nothing until December 8, 1941. (The day war was declared). Roosevellt had done the Lend Lease program to provide Great Britain with war supplies. Without those supplies, Britain may well have fallen. Roosevelt was limited in what he could do because there was a large element in this country (mainly Republicans) who felt that the United States should not be involved. There were quite a few Nazi sympathizers in this country, one of the most notable being Charles Lindbergh, the first to fly an airplane solo non stop across the Atlantic.
Roosevelt worked closely with Churchill and eventually Stalin to defeat Hitler in World War II. Roosevelt was not like the liberals of today. In fact, Ronald Reagan was a Democrat during Roosevelt's time, becoming a Republican when the Democrats moved away from the ideas that were Franklin Roosevelt's
FDR was a devote SOCIALIST just like Hilary Clinton and believed that the U.S should just sit back and wait to be hitthen that would make it thier buisness. FDR was to afraid to get involved. And one more thing FDR did not get us out of the depression but it was BECAUSE OF THE WAR people got jobs and industries and money began moving
You are ignorant. Fact is at the time America had become isolationist. They did nothing becuase it was in Europe and had no effect on America. Again you might know this if you did any kind of work in High School. I would say college, but that would be giving you too much credit.
We were selling weapons to Germany as well as the Allies....it was pulling us out of the Great depression...and we didn't find out about the concentration camps until 1941...the year we entered the war.
They also turned back a ship full of Jewish refugees trying to land in Florida (I think).
It was generally unknown that there were mass murders going on until late 1941, just as the US was entering the war. Also, the US was extremely isolationist at the time, and FDR was facing strong opposition even to his lend-lease program, much less entering the war.
Well most of your assumptions are wrong!
Woodrow Wilson was the President when the Treaty of Versailles and the Republican Senate REJECTED IT TWICE!!!
The US were Isolationist!
US FOREIGN POLICY After WWI
On July 10, 1919, the president of the United States, for the first time since 1789, personally delivered a treaty to the Senate. This was no ordinary treaty; it was the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I and establishing the League of Nations. As Secret Service agents and Capitol police sealed off the Senate wing to everyone without a special pass, President Woodrow Wilson walked into the chamber lugging the over-sized document under his right arm. Recently returned from Paris and his unprecedented self-assigned role as leader of the American negotiating team, Wilson hoped for prompt Senate approval, but feared trouble from Republicans, newly restored as the chamber's majority party.
1. Isolationist Policy Regarding the Treaty of Versailles & the League of Nations (1919) US Senate rejected Trty. Of Vers. B/c senators did not want USA to be part of the L. of Nat. (didn’t want US troops commanded by foreign leaders- Article X)
We supplied the British with economic aid but declaring war had nothing to do with FDR or being a liberal!
When the war broke out the US population as a whole did not favor getting involved. The USA had gotten into the Great War in 1917, and the political aims of that war was never fullfilled — witness the failed League of Nations and now state of war in Europe. The population of the US was VERY much East coast and Midwest centered. A significant part of the population was only one or two generations removed from when their forbears had emigrated to the US. The losses in the 1st World War (though greatly below that of other nations) was still remembered. The basic attitude was they're at it again, let them figure it out themselves. To openly support the United Kingdom, the commonwealth nations, France, and all the others for war would quickly become derivesive and be defeated - there was no compelling threat, directly or indirectly, seen, or reasoned to be found, for Germany going against the United States of America.
6. FDR’s “Quarantine Speech” (July, 1937)- President Roosevelt wanted US to stop being neutral. He wanted to US to stand up and stop Germany, Japan, and Italy from being aggressive. He was “Booed” of the stage, however, when he proposed his plan to Quarantine (put in time out) fascist nations.
FDR did give orders:
On September 11, 1941, the President of the United States publicly declared that he had ordered the American Navy and Air Force to shoot on sight at any German war vessel. In his speech of October 27, 1941, he once more expressly affirmed that this order was in force. Acting under this order, vessels of the American Navy, since early September 1941, have systematically attacked German naval forces. Thus, American destroyers, as for instance the Greer, the Kearney and the Reuben James, have opened fire on German sub-marines according to plan. The Secretary of the American Navy, Mr. Knox, himself confirmed that-American destroyers attacked German submarines.
We Got into WWII when the Japanese attacked Peal Harbor on Dec 7, 1941
Subsequently Germany Declared War on Dec 11 1941 against us {The Government of the United States having violated in the most flagrant manner and in ever increasing measure all rules of neutrality in favor of the adversaries of Germany and having continually been guilty of the most severe provocations toward Germany ever since the outbreak of the European war, provoked by the British declaration of war against Germany on September 3, 1939, has finally resorted to open military acts of aggression.
) and we declared war against them on the same day
It wasn't all liberals who were dictating policy in the US but you just want to blame the liberals for what happened in World War II.
The MAJORITY of the people were against it, not just Liberals.
And FDR can't Declare War as you know!! Only the Senate can!
I think you owe FDR an apology!!! He actively tried to get the US involved, even ordering the US Navy to sink German ships. It wasn't until December 7 that he could get the American people behind him, but you just blame FDR, who doesn't deserve being blamed!
Well, if ever I needed proof positive that the public education system has been in a kamikaze nose dive for at least a decade now, I just found it while reading some of these answers.
We were not the world's police then and we shouldn't be now.
Pardon the mis-spelling, my keyboard is a piece of crap...
aside from the fact that 90% of these answers scare the heck out of me for when these kids become leaders...
I'm going to try and keep this breif in case your ADD kicks in, so follow along.
Go to the library and get the book Lies my teacher told me its very informative. Its histiry as written by BTH sides of conflicts and tells a much truer account of what actually happened.
FDR bated the Jap's into attacking America. He wanted into the war, however America's isolationist attitude after WWI kept us out of it. We really didn't care what was going on in Europe again. FDR was in constant communication with Churchill to the point where he ordered US naval ships and planes to shoot at German ships if encountered. Howeve he could not sway public opinion here at home in favor of going to war.
His answer can be found in the book, Day of Deceit .
FDR and the navy set things up so the th fleet was in the harbor at pearl when the Jap's attacked. The truth to this is that they knew 7-8 days before that the entire Japanese navy had set out into the Pacific. Our code breakers were reading everything they were sending to one another.
This was ll over Oil for the Japanese. FDR went to the Dutch West Indies and had them stop seling oil to the Japs. We then became their only source of oil. This is a BIG deal to teh Japense because they are an Island nation and have very few natural resources of their own. So, FDR cuts off their oil from other sources and we start selling to them from San Deigo and San Fransisco until about two to three weeks before Dec. 7th. At that point FDR and our guys know EXACTLY how much oil the Japanese have stockpiled.
Remember in those days you didn't have Nuclear Vessels, everything ran on fuel, including ships. So, knowing how much fight your enemy had was a big advantage, wouldn't you agree? We sent the last ship out of San Fransisco bound for Japan about two weeks before they attacked. We also sent the message to them that because they had allied with germany, we wouldn't sell them any more oil, and neither would anyone esle.
Surprise! They attack Pearl and we get outraged and we enter the war. FDR gets to come to teh aid of Churchill and we beat teh tar out of the japanese in a war we couldn't lose.
No matter what, wars are fought over one of two things
Natural Resources OR Religion
I think FDR didn't do anything because he was to busy making money off the Britains with the lend lease act. We allegedly were not in the war yet we had our govt. supply the allies with all kinds of weapons. I believe that with the money this act provided FDR did in fact use to pay for so many of the programs he established. You could be right the fact that he was a liberal didn't give him enough time to step in to help the jews but remember that when the ghettos were first being set in Germany and all through out Europe the US turned down a boat full of refugees. I also believe FDR did know something because a) he was involved in the war unofficially helping the mother country and B)he was involved in many of the meetings between the allies and Hitler's enemiesmust have uncovered or at least must have commented on the concentration camps that had been settled. My final thought is that FDR knew and made the decision that he shouldn't get involved. Though for the US war really started on DEc. 7. 1941 in which FDR declared a day of infamy he didn't do anything in the previous years to help the jews until after the war.
The OP is an obvious jerkoff, redneck, lowbrow, piece of Conservative filth.
The real answer to his question is that the actual mass killing of peoples by the Nazis didn't start until after the United States was already at war with Nazi Germany. After that we used all of our European forces to end the war as quickly as possible and thereby stop the killing.
Was too busy with his 30+ socialist programs to notice.
or
Had spent too much money on his 30+ social programs to have any money left over to help
or
Like the attitude of liberals today, the Germans who had been vidtimized by the Treaty of Versailles weren't killing us so why should he care
Answers: We entered WWII after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, not because Hitler declared war on America, it was common knowledge that Hitler wanted to take over the world. It wasn't 20 million people it was 11-12 million. if you really want to place the blame anywhere but the Nazis and Fascists then you should blame France and Britain and the other Allies that attend the Munich Conference. It was here that the policy of appeasement was applied towards Hitler. Appeasement if you don't know is the act of giving in to enemies in order to avoid war. Britain and France allowed hitler to take over the Rhineland and it was only after hitler's invasion of Poland that the rest of Europe declared war. Also the blame lies with the individals that lived in areas surrounding the concentration camps that swore after the war that they had no idea what was going on in their backyards (as if the smell of rotting and burning flesh isn't and obvious give away!!) and FDR's New Deal Programs helped to pull us out of the Great Depression as opposed to Hoover who didn't try to help the unemployed and starving people that were being thrown from their homes!
Because we didn't want to get involved with the war in the first place.
The same reason Bush has done nothing Darfur. the US has nothing to gain from it
Besides, Hitler didn't kill 20 million people in Europe before the US got involved. Learn some history, jackass.
How exactly were the Germans vicitimized?
It's because he wasn't a REAL MAN, like George Bush!
Because Americans and their congressmen were doing everything in their power to stay out of the war. The President was simply bowing to the will of the people and nothing more. No shame in that, hindsight is always 20/20.
FDR was having dreams about the Monroe Doctrine.
France said they had it under control
Actually the reason lies with that he did not want to side with either the allies or germans/japanese/italians. The American people did not want another war and believed that the germans would leave america alone. Actually FDR wanted to join the war to help the allies.
Most Americans did not want to get involved in another European war. Roosevelt knew it was innevitable, knew the Germans and Japanese both intended to attack, and knew the cost in American lives would be greater the longer he waited, but most liberals consider him one of their heroes. Go figure.
At the time the US was a very apathetic country, especially towards world affairs that didn't seem to directly concern us. Plus, we didn't really know about the holocaust until at or near the very end of WWII in Europe. So the inaction wasn't entirely FDR's fault.
Because america is selfish.
they only react when their economy / nation being disturbed.
Maybe you should be asking
While Bush was killing-injuring
thousands to possibly millions of innocent folks...
why did the USA sit by and do nothing...
until it was too late?
You are very wrong in thinking that FDR did nothing until December 8, 1941. (The day war was declared). Roosevellt had done the Lend Lease program to provide Great Britain with war supplies. Without those supplies, Britain may well have fallen. Roosevelt was limited in what he could do because there was a large element in this country (mainly Republicans) who felt that the United States should not be involved. There were quite a few Nazi sympathizers in this country, one of the most notable being Charles Lindbergh, the first to fly an airplane solo non stop across the Atlantic.
Roosevelt worked closely with Churchill and eventually Stalin to defeat Hitler in World War II. Roosevelt was not like the liberals of today. In fact, Ronald Reagan was a Democrat during Roosevelt's time, becoming a Republican when the Democrats moved away from the ideas that were Franklin Roosevelt's
FDR was a devote SOCIALIST just like Hilary Clinton and believed that the U.S should just sit back and wait to be hitthen that would make it thier buisness. FDR was to afraid to get involved. And one more thing FDR did not get us out of the depression but it was BECAUSE OF THE WAR people got jobs and industries and money began moving
You are ignorant. Fact is at the time America had become isolationist. They did nothing becuase it was in Europe and had no effect on America. Again you might know this if you did any kind of work in High School. I would say college, but that would be giving you too much credit.
We were selling weapons to Germany as well as the Allies....it was pulling us out of the Great depression...and we didn't find out about the concentration camps until 1941...the year we entered the war.
They also turned back a ship full of Jewish refugees trying to land in Florida (I think).
It was generally unknown that there were mass murders going on until late 1941, just as the US was entering the war. Also, the US was extremely isolationist at the time, and FDR was facing strong opposition even to his lend-lease program, much less entering the war.
Well most of your assumptions are wrong!
Woodrow Wilson was the President when the Treaty of Versailles and the Republican Senate REJECTED IT TWICE!!!
The US were Isolationist!
US FOREIGN POLICY After WWI
On July 10, 1919, the president of the United States, for the first time since 1789, personally delivered a treaty to the Senate. This was no ordinary treaty; it was the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I and establishing the League of Nations. As Secret Service agents and Capitol police sealed off the Senate wing to everyone without a special pass, President Woodrow Wilson walked into the chamber lugging the over-sized document under his right arm. Recently returned from Paris and his unprecedented self-assigned role as leader of the American negotiating team, Wilson hoped for prompt Senate approval, but feared trouble from Republicans, newly restored as the chamber's majority party.
1. Isolationist Policy Regarding the Treaty of Versailles & the League of Nations (1919) US Senate rejected Trty. Of Vers. B/c senators did not want USA to be part of the L. of Nat. (didn’t want US troops commanded by foreign leaders- Article X)
We supplied the British with economic aid but declaring war had nothing to do with FDR or being a liberal!
When the war broke out the US population as a whole did not favor getting involved. The USA had gotten into the Great War in 1917, and the political aims of that war was never fullfilled — witness the failed League of Nations and now state of war in Europe. The population of the US was VERY much East coast and Midwest centered. A significant part of the population was only one or two generations removed from when their forbears had emigrated to the US. The losses in the 1st World War (though greatly below that of other nations) was still remembered. The basic attitude was they're at it again, let them figure it out themselves. To openly support the United Kingdom, the commonwealth nations, France, and all the others for war would quickly become derivesive and be defeated - there was no compelling threat, directly or indirectly, seen, or reasoned to be found, for Germany going against the United States of America.
6. FDR’s “Quarantine Speech” (July, 1937)- President Roosevelt wanted US to stop being neutral. He wanted to US to stand up and stop Germany, Japan, and Italy from being aggressive. He was “Booed” of the stage, however, when he proposed his plan to Quarantine (put in time out) fascist nations.
FDR did give orders:
On September 11, 1941, the President of the United States publicly declared that he had ordered the American Navy and Air Force to shoot on sight at any German war vessel. In his speech of October 27, 1941, he once more expressly affirmed that this order was in force. Acting under this order, vessels of the American Navy, since early September 1941, have systematically attacked German naval forces. Thus, American destroyers, as for instance the Greer, the Kearney and the Reuben James, have opened fire on German sub-marines according to plan. The Secretary of the American Navy, Mr. Knox, himself confirmed that-American destroyers attacked German submarines.
We Got into WWII when the Japanese attacked Peal Harbor on Dec 7, 1941
Subsequently Germany Declared War on Dec 11 1941 against us {The Government of the United States having violated in the most flagrant manner and in ever increasing measure all rules of neutrality in favor of the adversaries of Germany and having continually been guilty of the most severe provocations toward Germany ever since the outbreak of the European war, provoked by the British declaration of war against Germany on September 3, 1939, has finally resorted to open military acts of aggression.
) and we declared war against them on the same day
It wasn't all liberals who were dictating policy in the US but you just want to blame the liberals for what happened in World War II.
The MAJORITY of the people were against it, not just Liberals.
And FDR can't Declare War as you know!! Only the Senate can!
I think you owe FDR an apology!!! He actively tried to get the US involved, even ordering the US Navy to sink German ships. It wasn't until December 7 that he could get the American people behind him, but you just blame FDR, who doesn't deserve being blamed!
Well, if ever I needed proof positive that the public education system has been in a kamikaze nose dive for at least a decade now, I just found it while reading some of these answers.
We were not the world's police then and we shouldn't be now.
Pardon the mis-spelling, my keyboard is a piece of crap...
aside from the fact that 90% of these answers scare the heck out of me for when these kids become leaders...
I'm going to try and keep this breif in case your ADD kicks in, so follow along.
Go to the library and get the book Lies my teacher told me its very informative. Its histiry as written by BTH sides of conflicts and tells a much truer account of what actually happened.
FDR bated the Jap's into attacking America. He wanted into the war, however America's isolationist attitude after WWI kept us out of it. We really didn't care what was going on in Europe again. FDR was in constant communication with Churchill to the point where he ordered US naval ships and planes to shoot at German ships if encountered. Howeve he could not sway public opinion here at home in favor of going to war.
His answer can be found in the book, Day of Deceit .
FDR and the navy set things up so the th fleet was in the harbor at pearl when the Jap's attacked. The truth to this is that they knew 7-8 days before that the entire Japanese navy had set out into the Pacific. Our code breakers were reading everything they were sending to one another.
This was ll over Oil for the Japanese. FDR went to the Dutch West Indies and had them stop seling oil to the Japs. We then became their only source of oil. This is a BIG deal to teh Japense because they are an Island nation and have very few natural resources of their own. So, FDR cuts off their oil from other sources and we start selling to them from San Deigo and San Fransisco until about two to three weeks before Dec. 7th. At that point FDR and our guys know EXACTLY how much oil the Japanese have stockpiled.
Remember in those days you didn't have Nuclear Vessels, everything ran on fuel, including ships. So, knowing how much fight your enemy had was a big advantage, wouldn't you agree? We sent the last ship out of San Fransisco bound for Japan about two weeks before they attacked. We also sent the message to them that because they had allied with germany, we wouldn't sell them any more oil, and neither would anyone esle.
Surprise! They attack Pearl and we get outraged and we enter the war. FDR gets to come to teh aid of Churchill and we beat teh tar out of the japanese in a war we couldn't lose.
No matter what, wars are fought over one of two things
Natural Resources OR Religion
I think FDR didn't do anything because he was to busy making money off the Britains with the lend lease act. We allegedly were not in the war yet we had our govt. supply the allies with all kinds of weapons. I believe that with the money this act provided FDR did in fact use to pay for so many of the programs he established. You could be right the fact that he was a liberal didn't give him enough time to step in to help the jews but remember that when the ghettos were first being set in Germany and all through out Europe the US turned down a boat full of refugees. I also believe FDR did know something because a) he was involved in the war unofficially helping the mother country and B)he was involved in many of the meetings between the allies and Hitler's enemiesmust have uncovered or at least must have commented on the concentration camps that had been settled. My final thought is that FDR knew and made the decision that he shouldn't get involved. Though for the US war really started on DEc. 7. 1941 in which FDR declared a day of infamy he didn't do anything in the previous years to help the jews until after the war.
The OP is an obvious jerkoff, redneck, lowbrow, piece of Conservative filth.
The real answer to his question is that the actual mass killing of peoples by the Nazis didn't start until after the United States was already at war with Nazi Germany. After that we used all of our European forces to end the war as quickly as possible and thereby stop the killing.
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