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Road to War: How the U S Shifted from Neutrality
The piece traces U S stance from strict neutrality at the start of World War II to the rapid shift after September 1939. It notes neutrality acts barring munitions and credit, President Roosevelt's 1937 quarantine idea, and the eventual billions of dollars and millions of men pledged to defend democracies as the national effort.
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