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The United States followed a strict policy of Isolationism and did their best to stay away from the war. They did this in part because they had just come out of the Great Depression and their economy was just starting to take off again and they feared entering the war would bring them back into economic crisis.
In a confederate system, the states have most of the power. The central government has very little. When the US had a confederate form of government, the central government could not tax the states or even raise a military, because they could not get people to enlist.
President Frankliin D. Roosevelt had ran four terms back during wwll he also had polio which later led to his death so if you look up that president you will see when he ran for president and see how many terms he served