A big chunk of the USA was pro-German. The Germans are a huge ethnic population in the US and the British have been reviled in their classrooms since 1777. Also the Nuremburg racial laws were awfully close to Jim Crow and a whole lot of Americans were (and are) sympathetic to Nazism's basic tenets.
The question wasn't when the USA was going to enter the war, it was "on which side"?
The flaming idiots in Berlin and Tokyo changed to course of history with their stupidity but the "great anti-fascist crusade" that the Americans believe they embarked upon is an historic re-write after the fact.
HOW ABOUT THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Give credit where credit is due........................
Comrade Curious is ALMOST RIGHT on this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He only went wrong in a couple of places!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Firstly by suggesting that Yankees might have joined the German side against Britain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In EITHER WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is sheer SOVIET Propaganda NONSENSE from our Confused Commissar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for United States and Nazis - Yankee Congress happily declared war on Imperial Japan after Pearl Harbour.......................
BUT Yankees NEVER declared war on Nazi Germany!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was left to Adolf Hitler to ASSUME Yankees would attack Germany and so Hitler declared war on Yankees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AS we know a Yankee president DOES NOT Have the authority to fight a major foreign war..............................
without the permission of Congress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So by declaring war - Hitler UNTIED Roosevelt`s hands and freed him to act against Nazis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the Jim Crow laws- firstly they were NOT universally or fully applied in northern states!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Degree of severity varied fairly substantially by state.......................................
and of course the black citizen "who knew their place" and walked softly..............................
could expect to be pretty much ignored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not so for Jews in Europe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Czech writer Jaroslav Hasak wrote in his book "The Good Soldier Schviek" ...............................................
that during WW1 - an Austro-Hungarian cop or soldier could kick a Jew to death in the street.........................
pretty much for the benefit of the exercise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Black Yankees certainly faced HARSH conditions but it seems fair to say that life for a Jew in Europe......................
especially under the Nazis - WAS EVEN HARDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!