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Research examples of totalitarian aggression here. Fill in the corresponding questions on your lesson worksheet.
Cartoon Analysis: Based on your learning about totalitarian aggression, what reference is made in the Dr. Seuss cartoon below?
Examine President Franklin Roosevelt's response to totalitarian aggression through analysis of primary source excerpts. Research the links below and answer the corresponding questions on the lesson worksheet. (Use Actively Learn for the Quarantine Speech and the Four Freedoms speech)
Quarantine Speech (Actively Learn)
Four Freedoms Speech (Actively Learn)
The Atlantic Charter
Lend-Lease Act
Four Freedoms Speech (Actively Learn)
The Atlantic Charter
Lend-Lease Act
Create a presidential speech of your own advocating interventionist or isolationist policy during WWII. be sure to give solid examples to support your position. You have to convince the American people that you're doing the right thing for the country! You may use a podcast, audio file, or video for your speech. Share through Google when complete.
Franklin Roosevelt was an interventionist as he wanted to help out U.S. allies against totalitarianism and was also increasingly wary of Japanese imperialism. However, in the 1930's he also had to deal with the Great Depression and had to have Congressional support for his New Deal programs so he compromised with them which resulted in the Neutrality Acts of the 1930's. As the 1930's went on the Neutrality Acts' grip loosened more and more and other paving the way for F.D.R. to help out the Allied powers in a more direct fashion such as Lend-Lease. Of course, after Dec 7th, 1941, Roosevelt wouldn't have to deal with much of an isolationist movement anymore.