HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Directly confront the Axis Powers with her military
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Give military supplies to England and France to build up their strength
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Support the Axis Powers in hopes they wont then attack America
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Practice isolationism and try to avoid getting involved in European affairs
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Detailed explanation-1: -Isolationism refers to America’s longstanding reluctance to become involved in European alliances and wars. Isolationists held the view that America’s perspective on the world was different from that of European societies and that America could advance the cause of freedom and democracy by means other than war.
Detailed explanation-2: -Isolationists believed that World War II was ultimately a dispute between foreign nations and that the United States had no good reason to get involved. The best policy, they claimed, was for the United States to build up its own defenses and avoid antagonizing either side.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although U.S. isolationism was not the only cause of WWII it was one of the main reasons for the start of the war because it allowed authoritarian rule to sweep the world with the weakened League of Nations, contributed to the worsening of the Great Depression, and made diplomatic resolve abroad impossible.
Detailed explanation-4: -Passivity and Appeasement by European Democracies British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to reason with Hitler until 1939. While the United States was firmly entrenched in isolationism throughout the 1930s, European democracies had their own reasons for not confronting Germany.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the 1930s, the United States Government enacted a series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being embroiled in a foreign war by clearly stating the terms of U.S. neutrality.