1. NEW DEAL FOREIGN POLICY – NATIONALISM & ISOLATIONISM OBJ: TO ASSESS THE FORCES THAT LED THE U.S. INTO WWII

2. I. ISOLATION 1932-37 A. LITTLE FOREIGN POLICY
141 PLANES IN ARSENAL, 160 PILOTS
ISOLATIONISM RULED THE COUNTRY
U.S. SURVIVAL CAME BEFORE ANY INTERNATIONAL CONCERN
U.S. RECOVERY BEFORE WORLD RECOVERY
BY 1937 ISOLATION TURNED TO INTERVENTION

3. B. MEANWHILE…… RISE OF FASCISTS IN ITALY, GERMANY & JAPAN
JAPANESE DOMINATION OF EAST ASIA
RESENTED TREATY OF VERSAILLES
HITLER “DEMOCRACY IS IN RETREAT”
UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING
MUSSOLINI: TROOPS IN SOMALILAND
SUMMER ‘36 SPANISH CIVIL WAR

4. C. WESTERN HEMISPHERE – LATIN AMERICA
REPEAL PLATT
GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY
MAJOR DIPLOMATIC SUCCESS
FDR WORRIED: UNEMPLOYMENT, DEPRESSION, EUROPE

5. II. RISING TENSIONS & ISOLATIONISM
A. WILL NOT FIGHT ANOTHER ‘GREAT WAR’
NYE COMMITTEE & NEUTRALITY LEGISLATION
MERCHANTS OF DEATH – PROFITS OFF WWI
1935 NEUTRALITY ACT-NO GUNS, NO SHIPS, NO TRIPS
1937 CASH & CARRY
U.S. POLL – 94% AMERICANS WANTED TO STAY OUT OF WAR
C. UNFORTUNATELY, POLICY FAVORED AGGRESSORS

6. D. QUARANTINE SPEECH 10/37
+ QUARANTINE NATIONS CREATING INTERNATIONAL ANARCHY
+ NO VOTES, ISOLATIONISTS PREVAIL
+FDR KNEW RESISTING AGGRESSION MORE IMPORTANT THAN KEEPING OUT OF WAR
+GRADUAL, CAREFUL, SLOW

7. III. A. AGGRESSION & APPEASMENT

8. B. ALLIES NON AGGRESSION PACT

9. C. ACTION POLAND INVADED 9/1/39

10. C.2. BRITAIN & FRANCE DECLARE WAR 9/3/39
PHONY WAR ENDED APRIL 1940

11. C.3. THE BLITZ, DUNKIRK, BATTLE OF BRITAIN

12. D. FDR MOVED QUICKLY 1. 9/40 - $37 BILL FOR NEW AIRCRAFT
2. PEACE TIME DRAFT- 1ST EVER
3. DESTROYERS FOR BASES – CHURCHILL WON ELECTION 5/40 – NEED SHIPS
ATLANTIC CHARTER – FDR & CHURCHILL MET IN CANADA
50 DESTROYERS FOR CARIBBEAN BASES
4. LEND – LEASE: ARSENAL OF DEFENSE: BILL 1776
CRUCIAL AID TO ALLIES, U.S. ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN FULL SWING

13. IV. ELECTION 1940
HELEN BRUNO, “HE MAY BE YOUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF BUT, HE’S NOT MINE”
FDR & WALLACE – GARNER WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT
WILLKIE & MCNARY – NO REAL DIFFERENCE FROM FDR
CULT OF PERSONALITY, ONLY 1 TO LEAD US AT THIS JUNCTURE

14. V. ROAD TO WAR A. US – JAPAN RELATIONS 1937 MANCHURIA
1940 TRI-PARTITE PACT
EACPS – SIMILAR TO MONROE DOCTRINE
HULL-NOMURA TALKS – GET OUT OF CHINA
WAR PARTY WINS ELECTION SUMMER 41

15. C. JAPAN MAKES HER MOVE RUSSIA NO LONGER A THREAT
FDR FROZE ASSETS JULY
WAR PARTY IN POWER
HULL-NOMURA – ALL TALK NO ACTION
ATTACK IMMINENT, BUT WHERE? PHILIPPINES?
BACK DOOR TO WAR THEORY