Between The Wars: 1919-1941

Part I of Essay
United States involvement in World War II was inevitable. Circumstances preceding the entrance of the United States into this foreign conflict proved that she would not be able to avoid active participation. With a government increasingly changing its views from isolation ....

Part II of Essay
.... a man who, himself, condemned the United States joining the League of Nations, held the Washington Naval Conference. In this meeting of Asian and European countries, the United States actively participated in three treaties to begin to ease the tension already forming in the Pacific. In 1932, when the League of Nations proposed an economic boycott against Japan for reparation of the occupancy of Manchuria, President Hoover refused to participate, in fear of involvement in an Asian war. Just eight years later, during the Roosevelt administ ....