“We are assembled here tonight because we believe in an independent destiny for America. Such a destiny does not mean that we will build a wall around our country and isolate ourselves from contact with the rest of the world. But it does mean that the future of America will not be tied to these eternal wars in Europe. It means that American boys will not be sent across the ocean to die so that England or Germany or France or Spain may dominate the other nations.
An independent American destiny means, on the one hand, that our soldiers will not have to fight everybody in the world who prefers some other system of life to ours. On the other hand, it means that we will fight anybody and everybody who attempts to interfere with our hemisphere.”
Source: Courtesy of the Michigan State University, G. Robert Vincent Voice Library.
James F. Byrnes:
“Perhaps the greatest clause in our Bill of Rights is that guaranteeing free speech. In the exercise of that freedom, which totalitarian government is fast wiping out in Europe today, Mr. Charles A. Lindbergh went on the air last Sunday night to urge the American people to continue to bury their heads in the sands and give no thought toward the shocking conflict now raging across the waters which threatens the very fabric of Christian and democratic civilization.
Mr. Lindbergh’s speech was announced as a discussion of our air defense. Like many other Americans, I listened in keen anticipation of hearing a technical and practical discussion of our aviation problem by the man who thrilled all of us by his spectacular flight across the ocean. But instead of giving us advice on a subject about which he should be qualified to speak, Mr. Lindbergh gave another discourse on American foreign policy, about which he is no more qualified to speak than Wrong-Way Corrigan or any other aviator who may fly the Atlantic Ocean.
A few years ago, Mr. Lindbergh went to Great Britain to live. It seemed natural to us that his interest in aviation should cause him to inspect the air forces of other countries in Europe: France, Germany, and Russia. We thought nothing of it—at first. Later, we were somewhat surprised by the news that he had accepted a decoration from Hitler. We were further surprised by the reports at the time of the Munich settlement that he was volunteering his advice in important circles in England and France thought to be favorable to a policy of appeasing Germany by offering no resistance to her aggression upon small countries to the east.”
Source: Courtesy of the Michigan State University, G. Robert Vincent Voice Library.
2. T-chart activity
· 1920s
· Treaty of
Versailles
· French
Security treaty
· 1921
Emergency Quota Act
· 1924
Immigration Act
· Washington
Disarmament Conference
· Five Power
Treaty
· Dawes Plan
and Young Plan
· Clark
Memorandom
· Kellog-Briand
Pact
· London
Economic Conference
· Locarno Pact
· 1930s
o
FDR Good Neighbor Policy
o
Buenos Aires Convention
o
Hoover-Stimpson Doctrine
o
Nye Committee
o
FDR Recognizes the Soviet Union
o
Neutrality Acts of
’35, ‘36, and ‘37
o
Panay Incident
o
FDR “Quarantine” Speech
o
Neutrality Act of ’39 - Cash and Carry
o
FDR “Arsenal of
Democracy Speech
o
Committee to Defend America
o
American First Committee
o
FDR “Four Freedoms Speech
o
Lend-Lease
o
Atlantic Charter
3. Pearl Harbor
4. FDR asks Congress for a declaration of war against Japan
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