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DQ: U.S. Foreign Policy

DQ: U.S. Foreign Policy. Do you think the U.S. government has the right to get involved with the politics of another country even though getting involved will cost the United States a considerable amount of money and possibly lives?

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DQ: U.S. Foreign Policy

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  1. DQ: U.S. Foreign Policy • Do you think the U.S. government has the right to get involved with the politics of another country even though getting involved will cost the United States a considerable amount of money and possibly lives? • Consider that there are problems that have not been solved in our own country. Are there benefits to overlooking the problems in our country in order to respond to the politics of another country? Why?

  2. Isolationism vs. Interventionism

  3. What do these words mean? • Isolationism • Internationalism • Interventionism

  4. What do these words mean? • Isolationismwhen one country stays out of the politics of another nation • Internationalismbelief that trade between nations creates prosperity and helps to prevent war • Interventionismintervening in the politics of another nation

  5. Based on the following two quotes, choose the viewpoint that you would support as an American in the mid-1930s knowing what is happening in Europe and Asia in relation to Germany, Italy, and Japan. • “I would support the view of ________ because (Why?)

  6. Viewpoints on the War Charles Lindbergh, 1939 FDR, 1937 “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 disease…War is a contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared. It can engulf states and peoples remote from the original scene of hostilities. We are determined to keep out of war, yet we cannot insure ourselves against the disastrous effects of war and the dangers of involvement.” “We must band together to prevent the loss of more American lives in these internal struggles of Europe…Modern war with all its consequences is too tragic and too devastating to be approached from anything but a purely American standpoint. We should never enter a war unless it is absolutely essential to the future of our nation. Our safety does not lie in fighting European wars. It lies in our own internal strength, in the character of American people and of American institutions.”

  7. US-Soviet Relations • 1933 FDR recognized Stalin-led Bolshevik gov’t in Russia • Why? • LEAVE TWO LINES FOR WRITING • 1933 Ambassadors exchanged PROFITS OVER POLITICS!!

  8. U.S. Relations in the 1930s • Neutrality Act of 1935—made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war • Neutrality Act of 1937—continued to ban the sale of arms and required countries buying nonmilitary supplies on a “cash and carry” basis • Countries had to use their own ships to transport supplies and pay in cash

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