America Post-World War I: Interventionists vs. Isolationists
After WWI, America was the country which suffered less. Soldiers returned home and woman worked in factories. The position of the farmers wasn’t good because of the factories and industrialization generally. People were looking for jobs in the cities, credits were easy to get, and by the time passed they hadn’t money to pay credit back. After this stock market crashed, it caused Great Depression. In that moment isolationists’ and interventionists’ opinions differ regarding America’s responsibility to European nations in World War II.
First of all the struggle with Great Depression was one of the most important points of isolationists. When the country joins the war the nation and economy should be also ready, but America’s economy just collapsed because of the stock market. Many Americans became determined not to be tricked by banks and industries into making such great sacrifices again. The reality of a worldwide economic depression and the need for increased attention to domestic problems only served to maintain the idea that the United States should isolate itself from troubling events in Europe. Another point of isolationists was quoted by the representative James O’Connor “dare we set America up and commit her as financial and military blood bank of the rest of the world?”. He pointed out other main aspect of military and political intervention into the World Affairs, especially Europe. O’Connor supported that the US could not right every wrong, or US shouldn’t react and act as police in the world. Isolationists believed that the safety doesn’t lie in fighting wars in Europe. They truly accepted opposite policy compare to interventionists that the Democracy wouldn’t be saved by the forceful imposition of Americans ideals abroad. This statement was sustained by widely admired Charles Lindbergh: “America should fight anybody who attempts to interfere with our hemisphere. The future of America must not be tied to European Wares”. These most powerful
First of all the struggle with Great Depression was one of the most important points of isolationists. When the country joins the war the nation and economy should be also ready, but America’s economy just collapsed because of the stock market. Many Americans became determined not to be tricked by banks and industries into making such great sacrifices again. The reality of a worldwide economic depression and the need for increased attention to domestic problems only served to maintain the idea that the United States should isolate itself from troubling events in Europe. Another point of isolationists was quoted by the representative James O’Connor “dare we set America up and commit her as financial and military blood bank of the rest of the world?”. He pointed out other main aspect of military and political intervention into the World Affairs, especially Europe. O’Connor supported that the US could not right every wrong, or US shouldn’t react and act as police in the world. Isolationists believed that the safety doesn’t lie in fighting wars in Europe. They truly accepted opposite policy compare to interventionists that the Democracy wouldn’t be saved by the forceful imposition of Americans ideals abroad. This statement was sustained by widely admired Charles Lindbergh: “America should fight anybody who attempts to interfere with our hemisphere. The future of America must not be tied to European Wares”. These most powerful