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Sep 23, 2024 · Brands tells how Lindbergh’s rhetoric fueled his rise as “America First” spokesman but also led to his downfall, culminating in a 1941 speech widely condemned for its antisemitism. Brands shows great restraint in avoiding for most of the book in drawing parallels between Roosevelt’s fight with isolationists to today’s politics, and some conservatives’ opposition to spending more on ...
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- How The America First Committee Sparked Controversy During World War II
- The Decline of The Isolationist Movement
- How The America First Committee Disbanded
Though the America First Committee initially counted a diverse group that rallied around a common cause, it didn’t stay that way for long. This was largely due to the group’s most prominent — and controversial — spokesman, Charles Lindbergh. A fiery orator who was strongly opposed to American involvement in World War II, Lindbergh had initially gai...
Most anti-war Americans did not promote — or at least they did not admit to — harboring any ill will against Jewish people. Rather, they echoed an argument with roots that stretch all the way back to George Washington: America is not the world’s police or the world’s caretaker. But as the atrocities being committed by Nazi Germany became more well-...
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the America First Committee was ready to give their support to the United States entering World War II. “The period of democratic debate on the issue of entering the war is over,” the committee chair announced shortly after the attack. “[The committee] urges all of those who have followed its lead to give their ful...
Philipp Trauer is a Munich-based film producer and partner at BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion, alongside Thomas Wöbke and Roland Emmerich. Trauer's feature film portfolio includes 'September 5' by Tim Fehlbaum, selected for the Venice Film Festival 2024; 'Something's Coming Up' by Mareille Klein, which debuted at the Munich Film Festival 2021; and #The Colony' (also known as 'Tides') by Tim ...
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The America First Committee, created in September 1940, was not only against entry into the war. It also opposed aid. Its program was simple. Since the United States, if properly armed, was impregnable against German attack, there was no reason to help England. Aid would not only fatally weaken America‘s own defenses.
Sep 22, 2024 · NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with historian H.W. Brands, author of the new book "America First: Roosevelt Vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War." SCOTT DETROW, HOST: America first is a phrase we have ...
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America First (policy) Political cartoon by Dr. Seuss deriding non-interventionism (1941) America First refers to a populist political theory in the United States that emphasizes the fundamental notion of " putting America first ", which generally involves disregarding global affairs and focusing solely on domestic policy in the United States.
