1. American Foreign Policy: 1933-1941 Road from Isolation to Intervention

2. Essential Question
What shaped American foreign policy in the 1930s and to what extent was did it adopt isolationism?

3. FDR’S 1st Term
“FDR’s Bombshell” & Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act ‘34
“Good Neighbor” Policy rejects $ Dip. & Roosevelt Corollary – Inter-American Conference 1933, nullify Platt Amendment 1934, trade triples region by ‘41
FDR recognizes USSR – 1933, 1934 agrees to Philippines independence in 10 years
Nye Committee releases its findings 1936 Isolationism
Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936 & 1937
Senator Gerald P. Nye [R-ND]
“Merchants of death”

4. FDR’s 2nd Term
“Panay Incident” 1937,Yangtze River, invade China, Rape of Nanking
FDR’s hawkish “Quarantine Speech” backlash & preparedness
Spanish Civil War – Neutral, “Abraham Lincoln Brigade”
Munich Conference 1938: failure of “Appeasement” all of Czech. ‘39
1939 Invasion of Poland – WWII begins
Rejection of the Jewish refugees aboard the St. Louis
1939 Neutrality Act – “Cash & Carry Policy”
America “Arsenal of Democracy” - “Roosevelt Doctrine”
Fall of France - Destroyer for Bases Deal – Sep 1940
Selective Service Act of st Peacetime 1.2 million drafted

5. FDR’s 2nd Term
America First Committee – formed 1940 chairman General Robert Wood – Lindberg spokesman, Father Coughlin
1940 Election: Roosevelt defeats Wendell Willkie for 3rd Term
Lend-Lease Act Dec – Still Neutral?
“Four Freedoms” speech Jan. 1941
Atlantic Charter – April 1941 FDR & Churchill post-war principles
“Shoot-on-Sight” July 1941 authorized Navy to attack U-boats

6. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Prime Minister Hideki Tojo

7. Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Plane

8. A date which will live in infamy!
Pearl Harbor – Dec. 7, 1941
A date which will live in infamy!

9. FDR Signs the War Declaration

10. USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

11. Pearl Harbor Memorial
2,887 Americans Dead