World War 2

12. The difficulties Roosevelt hoped to avoid by not asking for loans to the warring nations is by not asking for money they do not have, it would not make the country look as bad. Also not asking for money would imply that we truly want to help these warring nations win the war, and that we are not just trying to earn a profit from selling them weapons and supplies. If we did not help these nations because they did not have money, most likely the same nations wouldn't help us with aid even if we had the money because they would have felt betrayed when we did not help them before.

13. In my opinion, Wheeler's charge that the President promoted war hysteria is not justified for many reasons. First of all, Wheeler is jumping to conclusions by saying that FDR will soon enough want to lease our American boys. The whole purpose of this lend-lease policy is to help and aid Britain with the weapons, not men, they need. Of course they can't pay for them at this very moment, so FDR had to figure something out so that the U.S. could help England without delaying any time in which they got the weapons. FDR had clearly stated that he would only send American boys to Europe to fight if we were attacked directly on our home soil. As for supplying England with weapons, it had to be done because England was the last country standing that could defeat Germany and they needed all the help they could get, and the U.S. was the only country that could help them.

14. Lindbergh was not correct in his statement saying that the majority of Americans were opposed to entering the war. Yes I have enough information to answer this question. In the spring of 1940 opinion polls indicated that two thirds of the American public believed it was more important to keep out of war than to aid Britain; by September less than half of the American public held this view; and by January 1941 70 percent were prepared to aid Britain at the risk of war. I say Lindbergh's statement is wrong because by January 1941, 3 months before his speech, already 70 percent of Americans were prepared to aid Britain at the risk of war.

16. Roosevelt's comment is saying that if we