American Foreign Policy

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Examines guiding principles of foreign policy during the first eight years of the New Deal Administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). Influence on foreign policy of domestic recovery efforts from the Great Depression. FDR's cosmetic reforms. U.S. isolationist sentiments. Move toward a more assertive foreign policy in Europe & Asia. Aid to Allies. Entry into WWII.

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"American Foreign Policy (1933-1941)


This research paper discusses the guiding principles of American foreign policy during the first eight years of the New Deal administration of President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR). During the early and mid-1930s, the formulation and implementation of United States foreign policy were decisively influenced by the imperatives of domestic recovery from the Great Depression and the preservation of an internal political consensus in favor of FDR's domestic reforms. Isolationist sentiment intensified in the mid-1930s and hindered FDR's efforts to mobilize internal support for a more assertive foreign policy vis-a-vis fascist aggression by Italy and Germany and external expansion by Japanese militarism. After 1936, domestic opposition to more forceful intervention by the United States in European and Asian affairs..."

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