Intervention versus isolation: why didn’t America want to get involved before?

• October 5, 1937: F.D Roosevelt quarantine Speech (beginning of his speech: 9:05 minutes)
• a lack of membership in international organizations, such as the League of Nations and the World Court…
• Washington Disarmament Conference:also called the Washington Naval Conference it convened during 1921-1922.
• Kellogg-Briand Pact :1928 (video)
• Dawes Plan, Young Plan: The Dawes Plan, Aug 1924; The Young Plan signed on Jun 7, 1929
• A consequence of the Wall Street Crash and of the Depression : an isolationist foreign policy (protectionism; recognition of the USSR, 1933)?
• The Neutrality Acts (1930s)

What changed America’s mind?

• The ‘America First committee‘…
• The ‘strained neutrality’ ended with Pearl Harbor (US Government propaganda poster of 1942.)