Patrick Hearden's Roosevelt Confronts Hitler

Patrick Hearden’s Roosevelt Confronts Hitler, probes at the alternative motivations for the United States and FDR’s unhealthy infatuation and aggression towards Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1941. Hearden’s common consensus reveals America’s policy toward Germany at this time is more complex with multiple underlying causations than what is frequently accepted. With America trying to pull herself out of the grips of economic depression and Germany gaining the upper hand in foreign market trade, something must be done to preserve and protect the United States ability to function as a successful, economic power. As we come to find out, Roosevelt and his “trusty” advisors make numerous political, economic, and bias decisions that can be viewed now as provoking or warmongering in eyes of Americas future WWII adversaries. These actions will come with consequences. As with the first World War, the United States will be left in the early
Roosevelt wants to provoke Hitler into war, but he has to get the American public behind him. Roosevelt knows if the U.S. doesn’t get involved, we will be in the same position as after WWI. The first step is towards persuading congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act, so we could help supply Germany’s adversaries. He then commissioned sending navy convoys to carry munitions to Britain hoping that maybe a German submarine would sink one of them, so the public opinion would sway. The attack at Pearl Harbor happens before Hitler could push back on this warmongering. Roosevelt now has what he has been after. After four more crucial year of bloodshed, the war is finally over and Roosevelt and Hitler are both dead. The U.S. finds itself in a new role, “world policeman”. They were to maintain global hegemony (243). Now with the dominate economic and military power of the world, they were now to carry the torch Britain had abandoned. Hearden describes the U.S. as “Pax