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The United States maintained its Constitutional Republic government structure throughout World War II.Certain expediencies were taken within the existing structure of the Federal government, such as conscription and other violations of civil liberties, including the internment and later dispersal of Japanese-Americans.
Luconi, Stefano. "The Impact of World War II on the Political Behavior of the Italian-American Electorate in New York City." New York History (2002): 404–417 online. Norpoth, Helmut. Unsurpassed: The Popular Appeal of Franklin Roosevelt (Oxford University Press, 2018). Overacker, Louise. "Presidential Campaign Funds, 19441."
The Communist Party opposed American involvement in the early stages of World War II, starting in August 1939, when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact launched a deal between Stalin and Hitler that allowed Moscow to split control of Eastern Europe with Berlin. Communist activists in CIO labor unions tried to slow the flow of munitions to Britain.
American Political Science Review 35.4 (1941): 701–727. in JSTOR; Parmet, Herbert S., and Marie B. Hecht. Never again: A president runs for a third term (1968). Peters, Charles. Five Days in Philadelphia: 1940, Wendell Willkie, FDR and the Political Convention That Won World War II (2006). Robinson, Edgar Eugene.
In March 1944, Smith stated that he and his associates in the party favored Charles A. Lindbergh for president of the United States. [2]Wendell Willkie withdrew from the race for the 1944 Republican presidential nomination on April 5, following his complete loss of the Wisconsin primary in which New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Harold Stassen, and General Douglas MacArthur claimed all the ...
The Communist Party opposed the United States involvement in the early stages of World War II (until June 22, 1941, the date of the German invasion of the Soviet Union), the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the invasion of Grenada, and American support for anti-Communist military dictatorships and movements in Central America.
Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II; Armistice of Cassibile; Causes of World War II; Churchill caretaker ministry; Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China; Combined Chiefs of Staff; Communist Law; Conscription Crisis of 1944; Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Croatian Peasant Party during World War II
The America First Committee (AFC) was an American isolationist pressure group against the United States' entry into World War II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Launched in September 1940, it surpassed 800,000 members in 450 chapters at its peak. [ 3 ]