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Ww2 Dbq Analysis

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Prior to 1941, the majority of Americans regarded the conflict in Europe to be something that the United States was to stay out of. Because the war was on the other side of the Atlantic, the conflict was seen as irrelevant to the American lifestyle. Aside from the fact that the war was across the world, the American people were only just getting out of the greatest economic depression the United States had ever seen; it seemed absurd to become involved in yet another war when the economy was so fragile. As seen in Fortune Magazine’s 1939 survey on what the U.S. should do for the war (Document 1), twenty-nine percent of people said to sell supplies to both sides (cash-and-carry) while another twenty-five percent of people said not to give aid

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