Both WWI and WWII were great calamities in which the USA ought to have had no part, but for the machinations of the folks mentioned by Chas Lindbergh in his 19410911 speech.
The involvement of the USA in these conflicts added to the damage and the butcher's bill.
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/speech.asp
It is now two years since this latest European war began. From that day in September, 1939, until the present moment, there has been an over-increasing effort to force the United States into the conflict.
That effort has been carried on by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people; but it has been so successful that, today, our country stands on the verge of war...
The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.
Behind these groups, but of lesser importance, are a number of capitalists, Anglophiles, and intellectuals who believe that the future of mankind depends upon the domination of the British empire. Add to these the Communistic groups who were opposed to intervention until a few weeks ago, and I believe I have named the major war agitators in this country...
And for speaking the truth, Lindbergh was slandered and continues to be slandered.
Well worth reading in its entirety, but this snippet is key to understanding how we got into WWII and the gargantuan, monstrous propaganda effort before, during, and after WWII:
If you will look back over the record, you will find that those of us who oppose intervention have constantly tried to clarify facts and issues; while the interventionists have tried to hide facts and confuse issues.
One thing you can count on is that almost everything we are taught in school and popular histories is trash propaganda. When you read the primary documents of eyewitnesses and such, you get a much different picture. Which is why the authors of primary documents and the documents themselves were then and continue to be suppressed. There are reasons that US Gov't refuses to declassify documents 70+ years old that pertain to the war and the road to war. And it is not to protect encryption techniques your smart phone could bust in the time it would take you to drink a cup of coffee.
It will take historians centuries to re-assemble anything close to the reality of what occurred.
