FDR’S FOREGIN POLICY

1. FDR’S FOREGIN POLICY • Initially did not want to get involve with Europe’s War • The 3 Neutrally Acts of the 1930s allowed USA to stay neutral in the European conflict • Later sold weapons to Ally nations, declaring that America should be the "Arsenal of Democracy"

2. FDR’S FOREIGN POLICY • Roosevelt believed in stabilizing America’s economy above stabilizing Europe’s economy/peace • Sold military supplies to Britain and France • Declared that there was difference between a military alliance and a decision to sell, for cash, desperately needed defensive equipment to one of the menaced European democracies failed to penetrate the intellects in editorial front offices • Agreed with the sentiment of the time, that America could make it in the modern world alone • Never made any attempt to persuade the US public to a viewpoint other than that which the majority seemed to hold on issues relating to foreign policy • Roosevelt was the 1st president to recognize the Soviet Union, believed they were a valuable friend in the coming war against Japan and Germany

3. US government under FDR followed  rather than led public opinion in relation to foreign affairs Reopened talk with other world nations, thus ending America’s isolation FDR and Cordell Hull acted with great care not to provoke isolationist sentiment Neutrality Acts Applied a mandatory ban on the shipment of arms from the U.S. to any combatant nation Good Neighbor Policy A re-evaluation of American policy towards Latin America Since Monroe Doctrine had been a American influence Troops withdrawn from Haiti, while new treaties with Panama and Cuba ended American rule Montevideo Convention Renounced the assumed American right to intervene unilaterally in the affairs of Latin American countries FDR’S FOREGIN POLICY

4. Treaty between United States and Britain that exchanged 50 USA destroyers for military bases USA was granted land for the establishment of naval or air bases, on ninety-nine-year rent-free leases The US were allowed all the rights, power, and authority within the bases leased Destroyers for Bases Agreement

5. FDR’S FOREGIN POLICY • War in Europe forced FDR to change his foreign policies from his early isolationism • Also forced him to change the American attitude towards Latin America • With the Good Neighbor Policy FDR adopted policies that reduced American domination of Latin American diplomatic affairs while still providing economic assistance and greatly increased American popularity in the region • The Rise of Totalitarianism in Asia and Europe forced FDR to respond by calling for a "quarantine" of aggressors like Japan but was criticized extensively by Americans fearful of possible entanglements • For the late 30s and early 40s, the USA chose to stay neutral from the Spanish Civil War and the growing war in Europe but FDR was forced to react • Neutrality was abandoned by the U.S. in 1940 with lend-lease policies that gave FDR permission to give arms to the Allies