When churchill became Prime Minister in may 1940, uh, he was informed by the chiefs of staff. That any kind of victory that they could hook to gain would only come about through support from the United States. And this became one of churchills primary war aims and that was that was to woo america in general and its president Franklin Roosevelt in particular. After you are really couldnt do much to help the british even though he wanted to until after he won a third term in november 1940 that was because the United States had a large isolationist movement that believed that this country could stay out of the war anymore with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other which i think is perfectly encapsulated by this cartoon uncle sam. Add to that there was an organization in the United States called America First headed by a certified American Hero Charles Lindbergh the first man who flown across the atlantic in 1927 nonstop and America First was extraordinarily inf
For a time being anyway, hitlers forces could not take the suez canal, could not take the war fields. Even so, the war was far from over. Churchill is no closer to coming into grips with itself with the forces in europe. I believe its 1 30, and i think im supposed to stop. Excellent, thank you so much. Now more from George Mason University at the life and legacy of western churchill. This lecture is part of the Smithsonian Associates seminar series. When churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, he was informed by the chief of staff that any kind of victory. That would only come about through support can United States to win the general in Franklin Roosevelt he did not help the british until after he won a third term, and that was until 1930 and thats because the United States knows because of the isolation movement did not take ocean on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other, it was perfectly encapsulated by this cartoon of uncle sam. After, that there was an organization in the U
This cartoon of uncle sam. It was called a basis deal. An exchange for 50 over age destroys that the british desperately needed to defend their island, the americans had 99 year old on various places in the western hemisphere, which are marked on this map. Its fdr could do this. Because he argued that this was a defensive for the United States. Even then he got a lot of pushback, isolationist, america first, did not believe anything of a kind. They were still dealing with this problem after the election, after the destroy of the bases deal, both churchill and fdr confronted the historic fact which was that britain was literally running out of money to wage war. It was fdr who said he would find a way to take the dollar stein out of this equation. What he came up with was some len lease. Lynn louise, which he proposes in january 1940, one we allow the british to borough mayor can pounce. And much else besides. All of which would be returned to the end of the war. If you think about this
When churchill became Prime Minister in may 1940, uh, he was informed by the chiefs of staff. That any kind of victory that they could hook to gain would only come about through support from the United States. And this became one of churchills primary war aims and that was that was to woo america in general and its president Franklin Roosevelt in particular. After you are really couldnt do much to help the british even though he wanted to until after he won a third term in november 1940 that was because the United States had a large isolationist movement that believed that this country could stay out of the war anymore with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other which i think is perfectly encapsulated by this cartoon uncle sam. Add to that there was an organization in the United States called America First headed by a certified American Hero Charles Lindbergh the first man who flown across the atlantic in 1927 nonstop and America First was extraordinarily inf
All of you here tonight. I am nancy stats. I manage Education Programs at James Monroes highland. We are delighted to be doing the program of general jackson, president and roe, and the florida territory tonight. In partnership with Andrew Jacksons hermitage in nashville, tennessee. Now, a little bit about how this program came to be. We are delighted to have aaron adams with us tonight who is the director of education at the hermitage. Youll be hearing a little bit more about her in just a moment. Highland was fortunate to open new exhibits this past september. These exhibits for the first time in history interpreted the building into that you see the photograph as a guest house built during monroes presidency by two enslaved carpenters named peter in georgia. Prior to we thought this building to be part of the main house. This is a really significant recuration to now have this building curated as it was as a guest house. In one of our exhibit goals, it was to really anchor this buil