Many Americans felt that the economic collapse of the European economy following World War I was the main cause of the Great Depression in the United States. Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota began a series of investigations in 1934-36 into the political activities of the munitions industry. Today that might be called lobbyist who tried to pressure Congress to pass laws favorable to the munitions industry. Nye's committee insisted that the US had been maneuvered into the First World War by the munitions industrialists like Du Pont and other companies which would make profits selling arms and munitions to the federal government for the war effort. The importance of the Nye's Committee report was that many Americans felt that the industries had pressured the US to declare war which resulted in the deaths of many American boys.
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Charles Lindbergh was the first isolationist leaders of the American first committee.
House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Committee on Un-American Activities was founded in 1938. Its original purpose was to uncover US citizens who had ties with the Nazis.
HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee
The sinking of American convoy ships in the Atlantic.
Nye Committee ended in 1936.
Nye Committee was created in 1934.
a United States Senate committee chaired by the Senator Gerald Nye.
1936
Nye Committee
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Senator Gerald Nye held hearings to look into why the US got involved in WWI in the mid 1930s. His committee came to the conclusions that sales of weapons and loans by American businesses and banks led to these industries pushing the US into war. Accordingly, Nye's committee's findings were used to justify isolationism and trade bans/Neutrality Acts in the mid 1930s, keeping the US out of WWII for a longer amount of time than they likely would have without these acts.
The Senate Nye Investigation Committee insisted that the US had been maneuvered into WW I by "merchants of death," industries that benefited from the war because it meant profits from the sale of their products to the government. The DuPont Corporation was one such business singled out by Senator Nye. He claimed the corporations considered profit over the death of American servicemen. The conclusion by the Nye Committee was popularized at the time by the book, The Road to War, by Walter Millis, published in 1935.
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The Nye Committee blamed arms-makers for encouraging the war to increase their own sales. They also blamed Woodrow Wilson.
Bill Nye is an American science educator and mechanical engineer.