On September 3rd though, the invasion Hitler had issued occurred and war was declared on Germany. America wanting to stay neutral in the war declared its neutrality on September 5th, 1939. A couple years later though, in 1941, Japan declares war on us and we in turn declare war on Japan the very next day of that same year. According to "Public Opinion and the Military Establishment- by Charles C. Moskos, Jr., during this time Americans gave this war unparalleled backing. Charles claimed that there was no other military conflict in which the United States has been involved, before or since WWII, that has equaled that backing support. This information that Charles gave in his book over the war was very positive in regard to the amount of support Americans had for it. To exemplify on this he stated, "It is within the context of the widespread support for the Second World War "at elite, intellectual, and mass levels "that we can appreciate the absence of any serious criticism of the American military- (Charles C. Moskos, Jr. pg. X). Charles even claimed that the only organized opposition to the war was that of small religiously based pacifist groups and the "nonsupport- policies of minuscule Trotskyist groups. Again these are just opinions and are not solid facts or numbers, but still provide an idea that Americas level of support was fairly strong during this time. .
The Gallup Organization was a very reliable and helpful source in finding information over what America's opinions were prior to WWII. They offer 65 years of Polling history and had several key polls that took place prior to WWII and during it. According to one of it's polls, in 1940 when the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history was enacted, it enjoyed an overwhelming support, with 89% saying it is "a good thing."" In another poll pertaining to union worker strikes and war, it claimed that 79% said government workers should not be allowed to go on strike.
