The US in the Run Up to World War II

Dana bon is a senior lecturer in modern history at city university of london. She specializes in the history of american foreign policy and east asia. We're often told that this was an intensely isolationis period of american history, when the neutral united states was staying firmly out of conflict in asia and europe. But Dana tells us it was much more nuance than that. In 19 thirtiesd and just building up int 19 forty one, we also want to remember that the us. Was an empire. And that might not be surprising to your british audience, but maybe to the americans it will be,. because we tend not to remember that bit of