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He certainly did as much as he could in 1940, starting with giving US Army and Navy stocks to the UK (necessitating replenishment), signing off on the Two-Ocean Navy bill that was for the time astounding, and a bill calling for 100,000 planes a year to be built by 1945. Also, the draft.

He did do that, seven years after coming to office when the war was already going on and it seemed likely that the USA would enter at some point. Hitler on the other hand did it from day one.