Isolation? They wanted the US to ignore European politics.
They would oppose the idea
Isolationists and America Firsters
United States officials warned them to stop expansionist actions or the U.S. would intervene.
Isolationism.
Restricting oil and coal trade.
They would oppose the idea
isolationists
because the mounting apprehension of Adolph Hitler was boiling and the united states did not want another war anytime soon
He was US Ambassador to Britain during the late 1930s.
The US abandoned it's strict neutrality position in the late 1930s due to Hitler's rise to power. World War II was gearing up, and the US needed to step in to help keep the Axis powers from winning the war.
Most of the isolationists felt that European problems should be left to the Europeans to solve and that it was unnecessary for the US to become involved in a foreign war .
Isolationists thought that the US should avoid any foreign alliances. The traditional policy of the US since independence was not to get involved in foreign affairs (ie. European affairs). There was a very strong feeling in the US that American participation in World War I had been a mistake. Americans felt that the European powers remained greedy squabblers with little interest in the ideals of democracy and self-determination. It was felt that America gained nothing from the war, which had costs many soldiers' lives, and that the world was not a better place afterwards. The lesson that these isolationists drew from this was that it was futile for the US to get involved in other country's disputes, since that would only result in involving the US in faraway wars that would cost money and lives for no purpose.
The US senate rejected joining the League of nations
Pearl Harbour made the isolationists finally realise that if the US didn't involve themselves then the world would be overcome by the Nazis and their Japanese allies.
Isolationists made little effort in the early (Post Dien Bin Phu) days. It was the anti war protests against the war and the draft that fought against the Vietnam War.
Isolationists and America Firsters
United States officials warned them to stop expansionist actions or the U.S. would intervene.