isolationism 1917-1941

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  • Created by: BKW
  • Created on: 26-02-17 17:47
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  • commitment to isolationism 1917 - 1941
    • interventionism 1917 short lived
      • Wilson takes US into WW1
        • Calls for League of nations
        • treaty of Versaillles
      • Wilson's policies rejected 1920
        • League of nations voted against by congress
      • Harding had little interest in foreign affairs
        • Wanted to bring US back to normalcy
      • War blamed for social and domestic problems
        • Womens sufferage, strikes, riots and unemployment
    • 1920s commitment to isolationism
      • pacifists opposed war
      • policies of neutrality
      • USA hosts Washington Naval Conference 1921
      • All 3 republican presidents accept Hardings views
      • Kellogg Briand pact 1928
    • 1930s commitment to isolationism
      • Pre occupied with domestic issues
        • great depression
      • rise of dictatorship in europe
        • isolationism seen as the best
      • strong pacifist movement
      • Neutrality acts 1935,36,37,39
        • Ban on trading arms to countries fighting wars
        • 1939 act relaxed the first 3 acts
          • British threats from Nazi Germany
      • Roosevelt quarantine speech
        • to persuade peaceful nations to sever ties with aggressive countries
      • Britain and France also following appeasement
    • WW2
      • Aid Britain in ww2
        • Neutrality act lift arms ban for Britain
        • Destroyers for Basses agreement
          • lend 50 spare warships in return for 99 yr leases on 8 British basses
      • Roosevelt asks congress $2b defence spending
        • $10b by end of year
      • Manhattan Project 1945
      • Roosevelt promised soldiers would not fight 'foreign wars'

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