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Pre-World War II 1918-1939 By the end of today… -Why did many Americans support isolationism? Did FDR agree with the public?
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Every Dictators’ goal = Totalitarianism total control!
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America Franklin D. Roosevelt = Democracy Isolationism: Why? After WWI U.S. feels like Europe hadn’t kept it’s promises: 1.) Europe refuses to pay war debts 2.) Nye Committee: Factory owners pushed U.S. into WWI because they made money
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Congress Passes: Neutrality Act 1935: illegal for America to sell arms to any country in a war. Issue(s) with this? Read FDR’s “Quarantine Speech”…did FDR want to remain neutral?
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“…the United States under modern conditions must, for the sake of their own future, give thought to the rest of the world” “…it is impossible for any nation completely to isolate itself from economic or political upheavals in the rest of the world…” “ War is a contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared. It engulfs states…We are determined to keep out of war, yet we cannot insure ourselves against disastrous effects of war and the dangers of involvement.” From his “Quarantine Speech” 1937
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Congress Passes: Neutrality Act 1937: if you buy our goods…send your own ship. What’s the purpose?
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