Joe claimed that the US had a good relationship with Germany, prior to the outbreak of WW2. Nothing could be further from the truth!
From the beer hall putsch in Munich (Muenchen) in 1923, to the suspicious Reichstag fire in 1933, to the invasion of Poland in 1939, the Nazis were becoming increasingly irritated with their antics.
A cutting of relations with Germany at that time was hardly necessary, since we had already cut diplomatic ties with them in 1917, when they pronounced unrestricted submarine warfare, and sank the Lusitania, with many Americans on board.
I wonder just how many caught this huge mistake, since so many are lacking in historical acumen.