Did Franklin Roosevelt simply 'drift into war' or did he 'conspire to bring about American military intervention from the beginning'?

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Did Franklin Roosevelt simply 'drift into war' or did he 'conspire to bring about American military intervention from the beginning'?

It appears that in the years preceding the Second World War, finding any historical controversy over Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy is extremely difficult. From the start he had been dedicated to an American policy of isolationism and there are no records to suggest otherwise. However, with the birth of new theories in more recent times, the otherwise flawless nature of FDR's foreign policy as been brought into question. Where once before it was thought that the US were brought into the war because of the attack on its naval fleet in Pearl Harbour, and later the declaration of war from Germany, now new theories have surfaced which involve deception and lies on behalf of Roosevelt. Despite ongoing arguments and lack of factual evidence, I intend to outline the issues involved and formulate some of my own conclusions about Roosevelt's foreign policy and the path of the US into World War II.

Isolationism in the 1930's was not a new policy to America. In fact, the concept had existed ever since 1795 and the start of the