abstract:The America First Committee (AFC) was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. Peaking at 800,000 paid members in 450 chapters, it was one of the largest anti-war organizations in American history.
But other groups, like the America First Committee, demanded that the United States stay out of another bloody European conflict.
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But the AmericaFirstCommittee, the broadest-based organization leading the battle against intervention, continued to support him, and he remained the most popular proselytizer of its argument for neutrality.