Isolationism
In the early 1930’s, America was troubled by the rise of dictatorships in Italy and
Germany, and a militaristic government in Japan, but felt unable, and unwilling, to do
anything about these developments. The inability of the League Of Nations to halt
aggressor nations further strengthened American isolationists. As a result, isolationist
congressmen succeeded in passing neutrality acts intended to keep the United States
out of another war. President Roosevelt invoked the Neutrality Acts against …
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…speech and worship;
freedom from want and fear). “No modern American president was better at this kind
of tactical management than Roosevelt (380).”
After passing the Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937, the American attitude
toward aggressor nations began to change. It could no longer be said that America was
a neutral nation, they were now involved with worldly concerns. There was no better
leader to embark the nation in a new kind of foreign policy then Roosevelt.
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