Describes how the United States Government mobilized the American people and their resources to prosecute World War II and shows how the war affected the quality of American life on the home front. - During World War II, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted America to remain neutral. However, he did urge the American people to avoid neutrality of thought. Hitler made it increasingly difficult for America to remain neutral. This film contains much original footage and follows the slow but inevitable intervention of the United States. The immediate trigger for this intervention was the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. This is a documentary of the role of American men and women at home and at war in the 1940s.