important, america first committee in 1940-41, was almost a million members in size. it was lead by industrialists, by members of congress, punitive spokesman was lindbergh, it was made up of all kinds of people, patriotic americans, communist, ain t semites, they had one thing in mind, keep america out of the european war. you see, they had just fought world war i. the country was going through a horrific economic cycle, depression. they didn t want to fight any more. the argument was basically, let s build up our military to protects continental u.s., bombers and other air war craft, ships and subs, but stay out of europe, we went there and lost enough lives. franklin roosevelt was frustrated. he got around neutrality act too give some support to england. which was under attack by the nazis, the nazis moved through much of eastern europe, they were attacking england, we had many people who opposed us getting involved because they didn t think we were ready and tired of the
lives. franklin roosevelt was frustrated. he got around neutrality act too give some support to england. which was under attack by the nazis, the nazis moved through much of eastern europe, they were attacking england, we had many people who opposed us getting involved because they didn t think we were ready and tired of the endless wars in europe. sound familiar? what happened? we were attacked. on december 7, 1941. american first committee dismanded a week later, challenges lindbergh charles lindbergh who was an isolationist became a controversial figure and decided to join the war effort and spoke out against any further isolation ism, he joined the