SPB-Cooperator -that would be my contention. As just about everyone knows, the US at that time was strongly isolationist, not to mention having not long before experienced war, along with the rest of the world. Plus there have always been a great many Americans of German extraction which created a dichotomy that had to be overcome. Plus the war was not at our front door. To me it is not surpsising at all that it was difficult to get the US people revved up to go back to war.

But the US did what it could in the meantime. Without Lend Lease, the allies would have been in difficulty- and it might be noted that those four years of the program cost the US dearly at Hitler's hands.

So, to those who bad mouth the US for not jumping in earlier: give it up.