What were the Consequences of US to return to isolationism during WWII?
What were the Consequences of US to return to isolationism during WWII? Thank you :-)
What were the Consequences of US to return to isolationism during WWII? Thank you :-)
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perhaps you mean ,"What were the Consequences of US, during WWII, BECAUSE of isolationism.
isolationism occurred before WWII, and ended when we entered the war.
i guess a consequence would be, many people suffered because we had the ability to intervene and stop the war before it started, but chose not to get involved until it was almost too late.
pearl harbor was a consequence. if we had been involved sooner, the Japanese never would have been able to do it.
if you meant just what you said, i have no idea.
Stone K
I assume you mean what were the consequences of being isolationist before ww2.
Easy... Pearl Harbor.
OK that's simplistic but it is fact. All the events that led up to Pearl harbor had been directly or indirectly caused by the isolationist policies of the time.
The US had a military presence in Japan around ww, we brought stability and modernization to the region (Japan was still a feudal kingdom at the end of the 1800's). Both the US and Britain left japan right at the start of it's industrial revolution. Basically abandoning it and forcing Japan in to a position where it was not yet able to be fully self sufficient.
When war broke out in the pacific the US did not take sides, it took the position of being "Neutral" despite obviously having preferred relations with China.
In Europe the league of nations was abandoned because the US did not support it. Because the US did not take a harder stand against the punitive damages set against Germany it opened the door for Hitler, and once evidence showed Hitler was re-arming the US did nothing believing it to be a "European" issue. Also by seperating out selfs Germany was able to create a strong alliance and kept the other nationes relativly seperate.
Isolationism kept us cut off From England and kept us from modernizing our military. ww1 ships and airplanes were the norm and in fact the lack of technological trade agreements kept us about 5 years behind other nations in most fields.
It was the isolationist policies that gave the world the impression the US was not willing or able to fight. We apeared weak to other nations and unwilling to take a stand. the rest of the world felt as though the US was a paper tiger and would be a non-factor in world politics.
there you go. there is of course more out there. but this should give you an idea.
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I really do not understand this question. As I can't see that we returned to isolationism During WWII, We sent our military all over the world to fight for the freedom of others. We cooperated with other Allied countries in planning major battles etc.
So this question makes no sense....
Charlie Bravo
?---your question is a bit puzzling
The United States did not clearly practice isolationism during WW2. However PRIOR to WW2 the US adopted the foreign policy of not intervening outside it's own borders (up until FDR and Congress set up the Lend Lease Agreement early in 1941).
Pooky
certainly at the beginning of the war we were considered isolationist perhaps this is one reason Germany and the axes were able to get off to such a great start. I think it caused us to have a difficult time seeing Germany for what she really was. Which again caused perhaps a lot of needless deaths ie... Jews others who were singled out as threats to Germany, funny isn't it today we are in all parts of the world and yet people in the US say we shouldn't be there some lessons are hard to learn or perhaps remember.