American Policy and WWII

American Policy and WWII

During the 1940s, America was following a policy of isolationism which mainly meant that it chose not to interfere in the political affairs of other countries. Even after the start of World War I, which wreaked havoc in major countries across Europe, the political stance of America to isolate itself from international affairs was undeterred (Roosevelt, 1939). Americans favored isolationism because they did not want to end up in directly war with Nazi Germany, especially when they had numerous other problems to worry about such depression and the stock market crash (Lindbergh, 1941). Also, since ...