On September 6, 1904 Teddy Roosevelt made the most future altering decision of the twentieth century. It was on this day that America, a long time domestic animal, went into the ocean and discovered salt. Teddy, a man who had publicly supported such internationalist concepts as the Panama Canal and sending the United States Navy to protect Venezuela in an 1895 conflict with Germany, renounced a long respected doctrine set out by James Monroe in 1823. The doctrine declared that the United States would stay out of European affairs and also warned the Europeans not to ?meddle? in the affairs of America. Monroe made it very clear that any European interference with the western hemisphere would ?impinge upon the rights and interests of this nation.? However, Teddy Roosevelt strongly disagreed. ?If any nation in the western hemisphere acts wrongly and in a fashion that might incite foreign intervention in its affairs, the United States will act to prevent such an occurrence,? he said. With those words a century of American internationalism was born; a century whose people, politics, and overall advancement was shaped by America?s entanglements with the rest

When Franklin Roosevelt went into office, in 1933, he was determined to stay out of world affairs. In fact in his inaugural address he told the nation that he would develop a ?good neighbor? policy. The phrase ?good neighbor? meant in practice that the United States would no longer intervene in Latin American conflicts. President Roosevelt?s policies seemed at first to be almost isolationist, in spite of his background. He did agree to go ahead with U.S. participation in the World Economic Conference, scheduled to take place in London in the summer of 1933. President Hoover had promised U.S. attendance. However, Roosevelt did not have much faith in the ability of the conference to agree on measures to stabilize the value of the dollar. Roosevelt eventually undercut the conference by saying that he had little interest in currency stabilization and by announcing that he would work for economic recovery in other ways. He was strongly influenced by advisers, who had no faith in European central bankers and felt that there was nothing to be gained by tying the U.S. economy to a hazardous international agreement. Unquestionably, Roosevelt?s action was made easy by the prevailing isolationism in the United States. Some said the distress of these years was because of disillusionment caused by U.S. participation in World War I. Encouraged by congressional investigations and the works many of writers countless Americans felt that the United States should have stayed out of that conflict. This feeling was so strong that Congress passed a number of neutrality acts, which among other things forbade private American loans to nations that weren?t paying their debts to the United States. Roosevelt?s views soon changed however. In the spring of 1940, after Germany had conquered Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France Roosevelt convened a special session of Congress and asked it to lift the embargo on the sale of weapons, a provision that primarily hurt the European countries opposed to Hitler and Germany, known as the Allies. After a sharp de

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