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The History of the Twentieth Century

332 God Help Us All

The History of the Twentieth Century

Mark Painter

History

4.8719 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

America was preoccupied with domestic issues during the run-up to the war. When the war came, the Roosevelt Administration looked for ways to aid the Allies despite the limitations of the Neutrality Act.

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0:00.0

If a chief of police makes a deal with the leading gangsters, and the deal results in no more hold-ups, that chief of police will be called a great man.

0:29.1

But if the gangsters do not live up to their word, the chief of police will go to jail.

0:35.9

Franklin Roosevelt, commenting privately on Neville Chamberlain's

0:40.0

appeasement policy.

0:42.6

Welcome to the history of the 20th century.

0:46.1

Music The

0:57.0

The Episode 32.

1:20.3

God help us all.

1:23.7

We haven't looked in on the political situation in the United States for a while, not since episode 310, in fact.

1:31.8

If you recall, that episode ended with the midterm elections of 1938, in which the Republican Party began to bounce back from its earlier losses,

1:41.0

and Franklin Roosevelt found himself in the novel position of not being able

1:45.9

to get everything he wanted. Republicans in Congress were still in the minority, but together

1:52.6

with conservative Southern Democrats, they formed a majority coalition hostile to any more

1:58.5

big government programs.

2:08.9

Even so, the Republican Party of 1938 was very different from the Republican Party that had elected Herbert Hoover President 10 years earlier. A new generation of leaders like Thomas

2:14.8

Dewey and Harold Stasson were reconciled to the New Deal,

2:19.0

but these Republicans and the Southern Democrats felt that enough was enough.

2:24.4

It was time to consolidate what had already been accomplished,

2:28.1

rather than pushing ahead further, with more new and untried programs.

2:34.8

The United States of this time, the late 1930s,

2:38.8

is often described with the word isolationist.

2:42.9

Well, yes and no.

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