Cap, in the movie, was selling war bonds; i.e. getting people to loan money to the government. Nobody donated money to pay for WWII. (Donating metals, though, was a thing.)
In fact, my personal feeling is that retail war bonds were more a war propaganda/patriotism thing and the majority of the funding was through the normal commercial bond market.
I suspect your idea of the power of the executive branch is significantly and unrealistically inflated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_bond
Cap, in the movie, was selling war bonds; i.e. getting people to loan money to the government. Nobody donated money to pay for WWII. (Donating metals, though, was a thing.)
In fact, my personal feeling is that retail war bonds were more a war propaganda/patriotism thing and the majority of the funding was through the normal commercial bond market.
I suspect your idea of the power of the executive branch is significantly and unrealistically inflated.