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Lectures in History

Public Opinion, Radio & Entry into World War II

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Wofford College professor Mark Byrnes teaches a class about U.S. public opinion, the rise of radio, and the debate about whether to enter World War II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Next on lectures in history. Wogford College Professor Mark Burns teaches a class about U.S. public opinion, the rise of radio as a national media, and the debate about whether to enter World War II.

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He outlines the arguments both for and against intervention and uses radio clips to demonstrate the role it played in shaping American views and foreign policy.

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All right. So last week we talked about coming of the war in Europe and coming to the war in Asia.

1:26.7

So what I'd like to talk about today is the American reaction to all of that,

1:30.3

what's called the Great Debate over American involvement in World War II.

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This is arguably the most important debate on foreign policy in all of American history.

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And public opinion, probably more than any previous debate mattered here, in part because for the first time, there was a way of gauging public opinion.

1:49.0

The Gallup poll organization had begun regularly polling the American people.

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And so leaders had a much better sense, a much more direct sense of what the people actually thought.

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