America First Committee

The America First Committee was the foremost pressure group against American entry into the Second World War. Often portrayed as somehow pro-Nazi they were in fact a disparate collection of Old Right Republicans, Mid West populists[?] and left wing pacifists.

One of their most prominent spokesmen was the aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh.

Although a popular cause through the first half of the Second World War, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent German decleration of war led to the popular feeling that the Seconde World War was now a defensive war and that America had been provoked into joining.