isolationism 1917-1941
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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
- Wilson takes US into WW1
- 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
- Pre occupied with domestic issues
- 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'
- Aid Britain in ww2
- interventionism 1917 short lived
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