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Most of my students know that the US did not enter WWII until after Pearl Harbor (12/7/1941).

A few know about America First and the embrace of isolationism in the late-1930s.

Almost none believe me when I tell them that 90+ PERCENT of Americans opposed US entry into WWII in May 1940, when the Nazi Blitzkrieg was tearing through Western Europe.

They struggle to accept what's happening in the US today b/c they can't shake the myth of American exceptionalism and eternal valor.

#history #uspol
Infographic from United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial website. US public opinion poll on entering WW2 (conducted May 1940 after the Nazi invasion of Western Europe). 93 percent of Americans opposed entry. 7 percent supported entry.
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