Why did the US choose neutrality in 1930?
The nation was suffering from a serious depression, had taken a serious and tragic loss in human capital during WWI and was politically divided on another war “over there”. American industrial leaders like Henry Ford and aviation hero Charles Lindberg had taken a strong pro German stance, the German American Bund was making a strong propoganda stand against anti Nazi factions and the Irish Americans were strongly against any aid or support for Britain. Neutrality wasn’t Roosevelt’s choice, but at that time in US History, there was very little support for intervention in the problems of the world.
