Indeed, Americans viewed the German economic and political system as some greedy monster which demanded the remaking of the world in its image without alternative. As America prepared emotionally and materially for war, its view of its potential opponent only sharpened and focused into one of disgust and even refined loathing. In order to arrange for the seeming inevitability of future war with Germany, the United States even moved to create agreements with Great Britain that normally would have appeared unnatural. Such agreements linked only one aspect of the two nations: the common desire to crush Germany. As a result, both nations asked for more from the other and conceded more to the other. Thus, any ally of United States’ who conceded
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While Britain appeared hesitant, President Roosevelt insisted that America would continue waging its economic war and supporting Britain as long as it could ensure the survival of a post-war world in which the status-quo reigned and open trade existed ubiquitous. Just like Germany, America became economically, and later wholly, engaged in World War II due to its desire to preserve its economic institutions and prosperity, and with them the status-quo, and due to its desire to shape the post-war world into a world in its own image, and once economic warfare ensued, true warfare was inevitable. Yet, more lies to this argument than just economics. America also desired to maintain its dominance of the globe and its high-standing among the global community.
America's reaction to Germany's early discriminatory policies betrays in America a desire to maintain complete dominance in all foreign relations and a fear of the slightest change being harmful to the United States. The United States craved to be the controlling party in all international interactions. It desired the ability to govern, to mitigate, to judge and to sentence. When the possession of these powers, which the United States had accrued following World War I, came into question, it had no choice but to defend its position and become entangled in the European …show more content…
In return for Italy refusing to fight, the United States would ensure that Italy would have a seat at the table which would decide the details of the post-war world. The fact that Italy rejected this offer is negligible. Instead, what in this scene offers support to the argument is the simple fact that the United States individually sought to manipulate the players in the war and to construct its own outcome to the conflict. The moment Roosevelt extended the offer to Italy, he demonstrated the truth to the claim that America sought to maintain its position as the leader of the world, the Michelangelo carving his David of the globe. America did not wish to go out quietly. It feared that its power which it had come to know and love would be extinguished eternally if Germany came to power, as Europe under Nazi rule would either refuse to barter with the United States on any level or just flat-out abuse the United States
While Britain appeared hesitant, President Roosevelt insisted that America would continue waging its economic war and supporting Britain as long as it could ensure the survival of a post-war world in which the status-quo reigned and open trade existed ubiquitous. Just like Germany, America became economically, and later wholly, engaged in World War II due to its desire to preserve its economic institutions and prosperity, and with them the status-quo, and due to its desire to shape the post-war world into a world in its own image, and once economic warfare ensued, true warfare was inevitable. Yet, more lies to this argument than just economics. America also desired to maintain its dominance of the globe and its high-standing among the global community.
America's reaction to Germany's early discriminatory policies betrays in America a desire to maintain complete dominance in all foreign relations and a fear of the slightest change being harmful to the United States. The United States craved to be the controlling party in all international interactions. It desired the ability to govern, to mitigate, to judge and to sentence. When the possession of these powers, which the United States had accrued following World War I, came into question, it had no choice but to defend its position and become entangled in the European …show more content…
In return for Italy refusing to fight, the United States would ensure that Italy would have a seat at the table which would decide the details of the post-war world. The fact that Italy rejected this offer is negligible. Instead, what in this scene offers support to the argument is the simple fact that the United States individually sought to manipulate the players in the war and to construct its own outcome to the conflict. The moment Roosevelt extended the offer to Italy, he demonstrated the truth to the claim that America sought to maintain its position as the leader of the world, the Michelangelo carving his David of the globe. America did not wish to go out quietly. It feared that its power which it had come to know and love would be extinguished eternally if Germany came to power, as Europe under Nazi rule would either refuse to barter with the United States on any level or just flat-out abuse the United States