Why did America cheer during WW2 when London was bombed?
I don’t believe ALL of America “cheered” or were in any way pleased at the Blitz. However… There were a large proportion of American citizens and many within the US government who felt that America should join the war on the side of the Axis powers, predominantly Nazi Germany. The likes of Joseph Kennedy (US Ambassador to to Britain) thought it better to ally with what he felt would be the new power in Europe for trade reasons – as did Prescott Bush (grandfather of the previous president George W.) who provided various banking facilities that helped Hitler rise to power and steel and mining until 1942. Henry Ford, a raging anti semite and anglophobe, sold armed vehicles to Germany quickly and efficiently while dithering and outright refusing to do the same for Britain. All of this attitude was to change,of course,when Germany declared war on the US. There were those who also felt it was time that the old imperial giant were “taught a lesson” and brought to it’s knees, for no American
