Did FDR Ignore the Axis till It grew Too Large and then Cost 446,000 American soldiers Lives?

Question

He waited Like Bill Clinton on wheels waiting for someone else to stop them and the Dems want to take credit for this fiasco as if it was a great act? Sorry he Bungled it.

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greatest president Ever? your Opinion i'd say

Answer 1

Well it wasn't so much FDR, as it was a public still licking its wounds from World War 1 and the great depression. Had Pearl Harbor not occured, I think the isolationists thinking would've prevailed despite what was happening in Austria and Germany.

Good question though, thought provoking.

Answer 2

Some historians have speculated that FDR was fully briefed about a possible attack on Pearl Harbor, and willingly allowed it to happen, knowing that the isolationist attitude of the U.S. at the time would never have allowed us to participate in the war unless we were brutally attacked.

As proof, historians have cited completely illogical orders given to the military at Pearl Harbor by people connected to the White House to have the planes awkwardly parked wing to wing, and other suspicious orders given that delayed movement of weaponry, ships, and airplanes.

And how about the battles? Just the battle for Iwo Jima cost over 7,000 lives. There were months were tens of thousands of soldiers died. When our soldiers landed at Normandy, they were cut down by the thousands when simple protective rolling barricades could have allowed soldiers to advance without being machine gunned to death.

America has a long history of waiting until it is almost too late to stand up and fight. Good thing we haven't fallen into this trap concerning the war on terror.

Answer 3

Actually, Although I usually agree with your points, I think you are off base on this one. The US was in the throes of the great depression when FDR was elected in 1932. The US was in a very isolationistic mode at that point in an effeort to fix the problems at home. FDR was creating massive social welfare programs and government agencies to try to shake the country out of it and employ the people. Many in the US, most I would say, saw the building conflict in Europe as a European problem and not ours. Many actually sided with the Germans and you have to remember, because of the time and circumstances, socialism and communism were being bantered about as political and ideological solutions in the US. In other words, FDR had a lot on his plate. The growing conflict that they had at the time was with Japan, not Germany, other than allowing exports and shipping into Europe and trade considerations. The Imperial goals of Japan dominating the Pacific were of much more interest to the US with our holdings in the Phillipines, Guam,and Hawaii...ect. The true villian was Chamberlain and the appeasers in Great Britain and France.

Answer 4

No, he opposed the Neutraluity Act, gave the "Quarentine Speech" in 1937 suggesting that aggressor nations should be isolated, and supported UK when war broke out in 1939, conducted secret negotiations with Churchill on how to help UK. he recognized threat of Germany and Japan but had to contend with Isolationists sentiments in the US -- largely Republican, by the way.

How would our getting into the War earlier have saved soldiers lives? That makes no sense.

Answer 5

I love how when someone posts something that a person doesn't agree with, they are automatically a troll.

To answer the question...absolutely. It seems like the perfect set up. Pretend nothing is happening, turn the other cheek, then when your time is up, it spills over into the next persons lap. And then ignorant people think it's the latter person's fault.

Answer 6

Nope not the way it happened. The American people did not want to join in the war in Europe at all. And they would not have done it if Japan had not attacked us. It wasnt FDR it was the American people who did not want to join up!!

Answer 7

The failure came after the appeasement of WW1. The world wars were actually just one war with a break in between.

Answer 8

FDR wanted peace at any cost,our military was undermanned and poorly equiped,not ready to defend the country.
Events caught up with FDR at Pearl Harbor and he had no choice but to go to war.
If he'd done anything else the American people would have run him out of the country.

Answer 9

Actually FDR wanted in earlier but had a lot of opposition from those who said "it's Europe's war, not ours". We were giving our allies aid via equipment and supplies, and many Americans joined the RAF to help in the fight. (my dad was one of them) Pearl Harbor ended all that chatter and those that still whined were quickly drowned out.

Answer 10

Many thought we should have !st taken care of the Japanese Than on to Europe But it was the other way around We mainly had the USMC during the job and lost a lot of good man But to read many of the Brits and Euros' here they didn't need us!