To what extent did the goals of the American foreign policy change in the years 1930-1941?

Answer 1

During the years of 1930-1941 the goals of American foreign policy has changed. They have been struggling with the balance of isolationism and intervention. So instead of getting involved in the war in Europe they just been finding all kinds of ways they can help but not get involved such as trading. But there are reasons to why the policy started as little change then moved on to a more heavy change and most of them came from Franklin D Roosevelt's decisions also the Japanese

First it began with the Good Neighbor Policy which was established by Franklin D Roosevelt and it was the central part of getting America to promote better relations with the Latin Americans and prevent further conflict with them by non intervention and non interference. The Good Neighbor Policy was also to change America from a world power country to a regional power. It interest and activities confined exclusively to the Western Hemisphere.

Roosevelt's decisions got us into the war because the people did not what anything to do with the war they even took a poll whether to get involved in the war(Doc E), most of the questions had "NO" for the unanimous answer but FDR kept insisting on making all kinds of acts and bills which would allow them to help England in some kind of way and not get involved such as the Lend Lease Bill which give England money and arms also America gave England 50 destroyers in return we get access to eight valuable defensive base sites. Also Congress had passed the neutrality act (Doc C) that told the people no cruising in war zones and no trading to both sides this was to prevent Americans from harm's way but when armed merchant ships used, no more neutrality act because they were told to shoot on site so this is just begging Europe to let America get involved in the war. The cash/n/carry got rid of the people's concerns of credit and not getting paid so now the buyers had to come to the trader with the many and they can carry out the product.

The Japanese played an important role in changing our American foreign policy because they ignored and blasted away to every treaty we had set up with them (Doc A) such as the Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced aggressive war which made it illegal so you were only allowed to defend yourself also the Nine Power Treaty which reduced the amount of arms and ships also it endorsed China's open door policy which means they were to respect its independence and territorial administrative integrity. But the big issue was that Japan refused to get out of China even though we asked them to and they attacked when no one least expected which was on "Black Sunday" December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor which caused about three thousand American casualties. This event angered the congress so when it was time to vote whether to go to war the senate and house voted yes, the unofficial war has just became official at this point.

The real question to all this information is why did these goals change? These goals changed because Hitler was becoming too much of a threat and eventually it would come to America at one point. If England falls then there is a chance that America might fall so FDR spent $37 billion dollars to increase our defense. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill gave a speech to the people about the end results of the war for when they win and the basically said that they will not change nothing not even territorial changes (Doc H).

Answer 2

After the 1860s, America was still in reconstruction after the Civil War. But during the turn of the century, American Imperialism started with the Spanish-American war and the USS Maine incident. When America had received Puerto Rico and the Philippines from Spain after the war, imperialism in America was beginning to fall with the Anti-imperialist sentiment that was helped largely from author Mark Twain. After the 1900s however, American imperialism sum what ended, but still continues today.