Art Project Vintage Britain

Why didn't the United States help Britain in 1940?

The US was helping by 1940 and not just with Lend Lease, the US Navy was assisting the British Navy in the North Atlantic and actually suffered casualties
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"""At the time of her sinking, she was commanded by Lt. Commander H. L. Edwards (Morison, p. 37). She was based at Hvalafjordur, Iceland, and she sank while escorting convoy HX-156 from Argentia, Newfoundland (Paine, p. 430).
It will be noted that the Reuben James was sunk five weeks *before* the United States officially joined the Second World War (Bruce/Cogar, p. 306). By this time, however, the U.S. Navy was unofficially escorting convoys to Britain. (Officially the navy was to take actions "short of war." But, as Morison observes on p.37, "'short of war' was not so very short for the Atlantic Fleet.") While U.S. ships normally did not sink submarines, they helped the British track them. What's more, the U.S.S. Greer had actually fired on a German submarine (U-652) on September 4 (Morison, p. 36). Thus German action against U.S. ships was not unjustified.
The Reuben James was not the first U.S. naval vessel to be attacked by the Germans in World War II. Apart from the incident between the Greer and U-652, the destroyer U.S.S. Kearny was damaged on October 17, and the oiler Salinas was torpedoed on October 30 (Morison, p. 37). When U-562 sank the Reuben James the next day (with a torpedo that blew up a magazine; Paine, p. 430), it was not really much of an escalation -- but it came as a shock to the American people.""

It was actually to the advantage of both the US of A and Britain that the US was not officially embroiled until after being attacked by one or any of the Axis. As it worked out both Japan and Germany did the declaring and so it can be argued that the US of A had a perfectly good reason to go to war. These things are important in diplomatic circles.

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