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Texans strongly supported President Franklin Roosevelt's steps to aid the British, French, and Chinese and to strengthen national defense. While the majority of American people opposed direct involvement in the foreign conflict, they supported efforts to aid those nations opposing aggression and to strengthen our own defenses.

The invasion of Poland in 1939, followed by the fall of France in the summer of 1940, increased American concerns for national security. The United States had opposed the expansionistic moves of Japan in the Far East and Germany and Italy in Europe and Africa throughout the 1930s. Although the aerial bombardment of Pearl Harbor was a surprise, American entry into the war raging in Europe and Asia was not totally unexpected. The Japanese attack on American military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into World War II.