What was the u. s. reaction to the beginnings of war in europe in 1939?

During the first 3 years of the war, from 1939 until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States maintained a policy of neutrality regarding the conflict.

Both its politicians and society considered that it was a European war, with no relation to American interests and the tranquility of its people. While the Franklin Roosevelt government sympathized with the allies and their cause, they did not get involved militarily in the conflict, but through commercial and logistic concessions to countries such as Britain and France.

americans had many intangible advantages. well since the british fought a war far from home military orders, troops, and supplies sometimes took months to reach their destinations, and the british had an extremely difficult objective. they had to persuade the americans to give up their claims of independence, americans had a grand cause: fighting for their rights, their independence and their liberty. this cause is much more just than waging a war to deny independence.