Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president in 1932 and led the nation through WWII. At the beginning of the war he wanted the US to remain neutral, the problem was that the Nazi threat was becoming stronger each day. This way he tried to maintain the neutrality by approving the Lend-Lease program, that supported the British and the Allies in their fight against Nazi Germany.
Everything changed when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. In his January of 1941, State of Union Address FDR stated the Four Freedoms speech, in which he defended the fight of the war was a fight for universal human freedoms, freedom of speech, of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
He wanted to win the war, preserve freedom and recover the US economy.
