FDR and the Isolationists, 1919-1941

Today we looked at the decades between the World Wars (1919-1941) and we evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of the foreign policy pursued (primarily by FDR) in an age of isolationism. Although Roosevelt at first largely continued the isolationist course of his Republican predecessors (whose policies also receive some attention here), his struggles against the isolationists after 1937 show him at his most clever, effective and (for some) infuriating. We will examine the charge that, in his diplomacy, he sometimes played fast and loose with the Constitution.

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