General Nye - interested in exploring how we got involved in World War I-series of books were published - one called The Road to War-Americans sold munitions to British and French (if Britain and France had lost would have lost millions of dollars) - companies pressured the Wilson Administration to go to war (simply to safeguard American investments)-Nye Committee is going to prepare legislation to keep the U.S. out of World War I-doesn't necessarily help us get out WWII, passed a series of neutrality laws-Americans should not be able to sail on the ships of belligerent nations-Peacetime draft for the first time in U.S. history-administration drafted men into the military-opens up job opportunities for others-once Hitler has taken over France, Britain is the only major power in Europe left against Hitler & Britain needed war materials (U.S. could not provide them because of the neutrality policy)-Cash and Carry solved this problem - if any nation wants to buy munitions must bring ships to the United States and pay cash-American ships are not in belligerent seas-Lend Lease, Destroyers for Bases, Convoy Policy - destroyers escorts British merchants (Roosevelt is gradually getting us more engaged in the war)1.
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Roosevelt, Oyster Bay (LOC)Identify and discuss the significance of A. Philip Randolph. How did Randolph influence FDR to issue Executive Order 8802?-movement of African Americans led by a charismatic organizer named A. Philip Randolph-Rauh had been instructed to draft a presidential executive order prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of "race color, creed, or national origin" in defense industries-FDR had been bending to the pressure from Randolph's movement-Randolph founded the largest African American labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, in 1925 - Brotherhood had a magazine, the Messenger-called for African Americans to march to Washington to demand an end to job discrimination - believed that the...