Pearl Harbor: Isolationism

It is a common held belief that America has historically been a nation driven by the ideology of isolationism. The best cases for these arguments are through our unwillingness to participate in either world war. The lynch pin being the events that happened in Pearl Harbor. I will try to dispel this theory in my essay.
On December 7th, 1941 war was forced upon America by the Japanese assault on Peal Harbor, and declarations of war by Germany and Italy four days later. It is a myth that Franklin D. Roosevelt was anxious to bring America into the war, and was prevented from doing so by the overwhelming isolationist spirit of the American people. The evidence shows that FDR was primarily concerned with his domestic policies and had no wish "to join in a crusade against Nazism or totalitarianism or indeed against international aggression." He took no positive steps to involve the United States in the conflict. The war came as much a surprise-and......

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Title: Pearl Harbor
Approximate Word Count: 1944
Approximate Pages: 8 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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