All other American wars had an active anti-war movement- the Revolution had Loyalists, War of 1812 had New England wanting to secede for closing trade with England, the Mexican-American war made Abe Lincoln a one-term Representative due to his opposition to it, the Civil war had copperheads and Southern Loyalists, the Spanish-American war had Americans strongly against us trying to gain empire, World War I had Socialists and pro-Germans sabotaging our factories, and we all know about Vietnam and Iraq.
Before the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the Communists here demanded we stay out and actively supported Non-Interventionist groups.
Even in Canada, Justine Trudeau’s daddy wrote...
In his obituary, The Economist described Trudeau as “parochial as a young man”, who “dismissed the second world war as a squabble between the big powers, although he later regretted “missing one of the major events of the century”.
In his 1993 Memoir, Trudeau wrote that the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 and his father’s death were the two “great bombshells” that marked his teenage years.
In his first year at university, the prime topics of conversation were the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, and the London blitz. He wrote that in the early 1940s, when he was in his early twenties, he thought, “So there was a war? Tough. It wouldn’t stop me from concentrating on my studies so long as that was possible..If you were a French Canadian in Montreal [at that time], you did not automatically believe that this was a just war. In Montreal in the early 1940s, we still knew nothing about the Holocaust and we tended to think of this war as a settling of scores among the superpowers.