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Pre-Second World War Neutrality in the U.S.

THE PRE-SECOND WORLD WAR NEUTRALITY CONTROVERSY IN THE UNITED STATES

This research examines the pre-Second World War neutrality controversy in the United States. The most vocal opponents of changes to the nation's position of neutrality were the isolationists; however, German-American and Irish-American groups strongly opposed changes they feared would ally the United States more closely with the United Kingdom, and commercial and industrial interests opposed changes that would impinge on their freedom to trade with willing buyers. The most visible proponents of changes to the nation's neutrality laws were those individuals and groups who denounced what they perceived to be the inherent evilness of the sitting governments in Germany, Italy, and Japan. The most effective advocates for change in the nation's neutrality status, however, were the politicians, industrialists, and academic theorists who visualized a transformation of the international political and economic environments as an evolution through which the United States could become the dominant world power. For these latter parties, Germany and Japan represented the greatest threat to a future American hegemony, and changes in the nation's neutrality laws were a necessary step in stopping these political and economic competitors.

While the primary emphasis in this research is placed on the neutrality debates that occurred in the late-1930s, earlier events set the stage for an influenced these debates. Thus, actions of the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907, American neutrality vacillations prior to the First World War, the Washington Conference on China in 1921 and 1922, the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact in 1928, the Naval Treaties of the 1920s and 1930s, aggressive actions by Germany, Italy, and Japan, the Lend-Lease Act, and American attitudes toward foreigners all are factors that are considered in this examination.

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