Foreign Policies of FDR

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Up until 1938, I don't think anybody would disagree that isolation more or less dominated American politics. Yet as FDR began to move more towards interventionalism after 1938 and liberals promptly divided on foreign policy issues, things got more interesting.

What are everybody's thoughts on how WW2-era foreign policies (mainly those involving FDR) worked out? How could things have gone differently, and how could that have affected the United States?
 
Couldn't they have send more to China though? They sned enough to UK and USSR but if they had send more to Chiang then he would have had more ability to defend against the Japanese as well as the Communists.
 
Couldn't they have send more to China though? They sned enough to UK and USSR but if they had send more to Chiang then he would have had more ability to defend against the Japanese as well as the Communists.
How? The burma road was taking everything it could carry as long as it was open. Of course, it could have carried far more if it had been run competantly.
 
Up until 1938, I don't think anybody would disagree that isolation more or less dominated American politics. Yet as FDR began to move more towards interventionalism after 1938 and liberals promptly divided on foreign policy issues, things got more interesting.

What are everybody's thoughts on how WW2-era foreign policies (mainly those involving FDR) worked out? How could things have gone differently, and how could that have affected the United States?

Well, pre-WWII, you did have the Good Neighbor policy, which worked rather well in undoing some of the damage done by decades of "big stick" policies in Latin America.

During the war, FDR got most of what he wanted in terms of Lend-Lease, the Atlantic Charter, and then the U.N. But there's a lot more he wanted to do when it came to decolonization, a U.N Security Council with vetoes limited to the "spheres of influence" of the great powers, creating "open cities" in the USSR, etc.

One potentially huge change, if FDR lives a bit longer, is the U.S might accept Ho Chin Minh's offer of an alliance in '45, possibly butterflying the Vietnam War.

I'd look at Kimball's The Juggler for more.
 
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