Editing The World Wars (section)

===American Rearmament=== 
This whole time the American public had been watching the developing war. Chief among them was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was not a fan of Adolf, mostly because FDR hated imperialism (he actively worked to release the Philippines from the US - the only reason that fell through was because the Filipinos could see the Japanese quite obviously eyeing them up - and was pivotal in creating a post-war environment that would destroy the colonial regimes of Britain and France.) He convinced Congress to send increasingly generous aid to Britain, start pouring funds into the military, instituted a peacetime draft, and generally put the US into a state of readiness for war.

In spite of these changes, the American public was generally lukewarm on the idea of war in Europe, as they had been thirty years previously; they were content to let the Europeans kill each other and live their lives unbothered by the Old World's problems. Besides, the Depression was still going on, and the last thing people wanted was even more misery on top of that. Like Wilson, FDR realized that he could not go to war without changing the public's perception, so this explains the "slow" manner in which the US built up its military infrastructure. Instead, he and the generals and admirals took notes and watched carefully from the sidelines, gradually taking a more pro-Allied stance by escorting transports, allowing American destroyers to "defend business interests" in convoys, and building up a tank force and air force. Everything was going fine until the Japanese Navy ran up and kicked America in the balls at Pearl Harbor.

Rather than being shocked into peace talks or ineffectiveness, the entire country became extraordinarily pissed and Congress declared war the next day. Recruitment offices were overrun with men willing and eager to fight, and promising officers such as Chester Nimitz, George Patton, Dwight Eisenhower, and Jimmy Doolittle were given important assignments. "Remember Pearl Harbor" became a rallying cry among the US Navy, and General Douglas MacArthur was determined to regain his prestige after the Philippines were lost under his command. Europe probably still would've been a tough sell, even with the American public ripshit pissed and out for revenge, but Hitler and the rest of the Axis neatly solved that problem by declaring war on the US right after the Pearl Harbor strike, and just like that, America was committed to the whole World War shebang.