From the Great War to the Good War

The road from World War I to World War II. The mythology of isolationism, limiting Jewish immigration, and FDR's strategy to involve the USA.

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1. From the Great War To the Good War
2. “Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.” October 30, 1940
3. The Mythology of Isolationism 1918 - 1941
5. Economic Objective$ > FP
6. stability
10. Dawes Plan 1924
13. $33B
18. 1918-1920
19. 1918-1920
20. 5000 7000 1918-1920
21. 1900-1933
22. 1900-1933
23. 4x 2x 6x 4x 2x 7x 1x 1900-1933
24. ½ finances = US Control 1924
25. ½ US steel & cotton exports 1935
26. “Good Neighbor Policy” 1933-34
27. Isolationism vs Interventionism
28. Nye Committee 1934
29. Nye Committee 1934 War profiteers = “Merchants of Death”
30. Ludlow “amendment” Women’s Peace Union (WPU)
31. Neutrality Acts 1935, 1936, 1937
32. Neutrality Acts ARMS, LOANS, PASSENGERS
33. America First Committee (AFC)
34. America First Committee (AFC)
36. 1)The United States must build an invulnerable national defense. 2)No foreign power, nor group of powers, can successfully attack an America that is prepared. 3)American democracy can be preserved only by keeping out of the war in Europe. 4)“Aid short of war” weakens national defense at home and threatens to involve America in war abroad.
39. “We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence….Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country.”
40. Limiting Jewish Immigration
41. ASS Breckenridge Long
45. Deceit and Indifference
46. The Road to American Involvement
47. FDR’s role
49. Chicago: October 5, 1937
50. “It is true that the moral consciousness of the world must recognize the importance of removing injustices and well-founded grievances; but at the same time it must be aroused to the cardinal necessity of honoring sanctity of treaties, of respecting the rights and liberties of others and of putting an end to acts of international aggression.
51. It seems to be unfortunately true that the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading.
52. It is my determination to pursue a policy of peace. It is my determination to adopt every practicable measure to avoid involvement in war. When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.”
55. Munich Conference, 1938
56. “appeasement”
57. October, 1938
58. “War of the Worlds”
60. Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939
62. September, 1940
64. 500,000 rifles
65. 80,000 machine guns
66. 900 field guns
67. 130,000,000 ammo rounds
68. Lend-Lease Act January, 1941
69. “Suppose my neighbor’s home catches fire, and I have a length of garden hose four or five hundred feet away. If he can take my garden hose and connect it up with his hydrant, I may help him to put out his fire...I don’t say to him before that operation, ‘Neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15; you have to pay me $15 for it’.... I don’t want $15 — I want my garden hose back after the fire is over.”
71. “Once it had been used, you didn’t want it back.”
74. U.S.S. Greer
75. September, 1941
76. September, 1941
77. December 7, 1941