When it comes to foreign relations, different things matter to different people. If I had to choose people or themes when it came to foreign relations, I would choose people. When it comes to FDR, he strongly believed that it was only a matter of time before the United States needed to enter the war. So FDR came up with his plan or his foreign policy and the policy that would help the United States become the best we could be. FDR was a practical idealist, meaning that he likes to compromise, he is very sensitive and very humbled. When looking at FDR we can see that he was very timid when it came to foreign relations and policies. The Good Neighbor policy was aimed to Latin America, the policy 's main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America. FDR was in Interventionist, it shows with when he supported the case for intervention in WWII through the Destroyers for Bases Agreement and Lend-Lease Act supplying ships and armament to the Allied forces. Along with that he led the US into WWII after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and formulated strategy as part of the "Big Three" with Churchill and Stalin to defeat the Axis powers. When it came to actually trying to compromise, there was always going to be someone who didn’t like the idea, in the case when FDR decided he was going to confront the empire head on. In Document 6.12, FDR talks about his concerns with the future of the empire. He is talking about Indo-China and how to deal with it. He put of his idea and says “Stalin liked the idea. China liked the idea. The British didn’t like it.” (Franklin D. Roosevelt, pg. 148) With that being said, he tried to compromise, but the USSR, China and the US liked the idea and the British don’t. This is where you can’t really compromise any more. FDR didn’t want to make the British mad, so he kept this quiet, until he could figure out another approach. I personally wouldn’t describe FDR as a Wilsonian.
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A Wilsonian is a person who has certain type of ideological perspectives on foreign policy. This term comes from the ideology of Woodrow Wilson and it can be based on the fourteen points that he personally believed that it would create world peace. The reason I wouldn’t consider him a Wilsonian, is that FDR liked to compromise and Wilson was not about to compromise and lose anything that he had fought for. FDR and Wilson did share some ideas, like the spread of capitalism and the spread of democracy, but one thing that makes them different is that Wilson wanted to further the self-interest of the nation and by that only wanted to be self-determined if the country was under control of a rival. In a letter FDR had written to Gandhi, in response to the letter he received, he says “that the United States has consistently striven for and supported policies of fair dealing and of fair play”. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, pg. 142) This shows that FDR was going to do whatever he needed to have a harmonious relationship between nations. With that he also shows that the two nations have a common interest which is democracy. That is one of the qualities of Wilson. When it comes to FDR and his successes, I believe he had two major ones. First, he helped
A Wilsonian is a person who has certain type of ideological perspectives on foreign policy. This term comes from the ideology of Woodrow Wilson and it can be based on the fourteen points that he personally believed that it would create world peace. The reason I wouldn’t consider him a Wilsonian, is that FDR liked to compromise and Wilson was not about to compromise and lose anything that he had fought for. FDR and Wilson did share some ideas, like the spread of capitalism and the spread of democracy, but one thing that makes them different is that Wilson wanted to further the self-interest of the nation and by that only wanted to be self-determined if the country was under control of a rival. In a letter FDR had written to Gandhi, in response to the letter he received, he says “that the United States has consistently striven for and supported policies of fair dealing and of fair play”. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, pg. 142) This shows that FDR was going to do whatever he needed to have a harmonious relationship between nations. With that he also shows that the two nations have a common interest which is democracy. That is one of the qualities of Wilson. When it comes to FDR and his successes, I believe he had two major ones. First, he helped