The History of Internationalism and the Roosevelt Presidency

In the thirties, he's absolutely in the isolationism mainstream. He not just went along with but so helpd design a succession of tightening neutrality acts that essentially cortened the united states off from commercial contact with belligerents. Starting in 19 39, roosevelt began to push back against the hardcort isolationists by creating mechanisms for the victims of notsy aggression to purchase arms and other goods from the us. And then you start seeing lend lease, the programme to send arms and various kinds of vessels to countries fighting the germans and the japanese. But he said, quite explicitly, the reason i am doing this is to keep the united states out of the