WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Even the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 did not suddenly diffuse popular desire to avoid international entanglements. Instead, public opinion shifted from favoring complete neutrality to supporting limited U.S. aid to the Allies short of actual intervention in the war.

Detailed explanation-2: -When WWI began in Europe in 1914, many Americans wanted the United States to stay out of the conflict, supporting President Woodrow Wilson’s policy of strict and impartial neutrality. “The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men’s souls.

Detailed explanation-3: -The US was isolationist in the period leading up to World War II even while moving to become more involved once war broke out. It was the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor that brought the US into the war.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1920s and 1930s, it resulted in the Great Depression, and to some degree it contributed to the coming of World War II. Those sentiments, when turned into policy, are particularly inappropriate now because we need to be able to sell goods overseas as we try to get our economy going.