Write a paragraph or two for an article about America entering WWII. The audience for this article is high school students and above.
Following the events of WWI, the United States made a commitment to be less involved in global wars, and to pursue a policy of isolationism. And they held true to this policy for the next few decades, even as the events leading up to WWII began to unfold. Even as Hitler and Mussolini rose to power, the majority of Americans wanted to stay focused on the current U.S. issues such as recovering from the Great Depression. In 1933 FDR was elected president, and he quickly realized that at some point America would need to stand up against Hitler's Nazi regime. FDR began finding ways to assist in the conflict without violating America's neutrality. In 1939 and 1940, the U.S. began supplying Britain with weapons, supplies, and even tanks.

Although FDR kept finding ways to assist the Allied powers, many U.S. isolationists viewed Roosevelt's actions as a way to drag the United States back into an unnecessary war. Even after Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill and created the Atlantic Charter. Roosevelt hoped that this charter would help swing American opinion on the war, but it had very little impact. In a wild sequence of events, the United States was drawn into the global war due to the actions of the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Just a day after the events at Pearl Harbor, Congress declared war on Japan. Japan's allies in Germany and Italy responded by declaring war on the United States.