America's Isolationist Polices in the 1920s and 1930s

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After being dragged into the nightmare of World War I America adopted several isolationist policies in order to remove itself from any possible foreign conflict. Recovering from monetary loss in World War I, then to face the Depression in 1930's and fear of involvement in World War II is reason why this isolationist attitude flourished. Mending America, keeping it out of war, was the goal at this time. Largely, what fueled the adoption of isolationist …

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…first. Warren Harding said, in 1921, "America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration." WORKS CITED Freidal, Frank. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. (171-184). Garraty, John. The American Nation. Ed. Bruce Borland. New York: HarperCollins College, 1979. (721-725, 762). Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. (197-215). Morison, S.Z. "The Second Roosevelt Adminstration." (342-350).