At the council formulations and to serve in the Obama Administration as assistant to National Security council. He also served during the Clinton Administration visiting scholar including harvard and columbia and the International Institute for strategic studies in london and numerous articles on National Strategic affairs and the author of nine previous books. Including how enemies become friends. Walter russell mead at the Hudson Institute the global economist at the wall street journal professor of Foreign Affairs with the council of Foreign Relations and offers numerous books and widely recognized special providence and how it changed the world. I hope we have the chance for work entitled the United States is real and the fate of jewish people. And that to shield itself is the subject of the discussion tonight. Please welcome Walter Russell mead. Thank you for that introduction it is terrific to be here with charles i think ive known so many years now. Quite a while. Can certainly
Media. Wofford College Professor teaches about the rise of radio and its impact on whether to enter world war ii. The class uses sound clips showing the role radio played shaping views and policy. All right. So, last week we talked about coming of the war in europe and asia. I want to talk about the great debate over american involvement in world war ii. This is arguably the most important debate on Foreign Policy in all of American History. And Public Opinion probably more than any previous debate mattered here in part for the first time there was a way of gauging Public Opinion. The gallop poll organization had started polling American People. So leaders had a much more direct sense of what the people actually thought. Youre going to see a lot of polling data in this, in fleshing out exactly what it was that americans thought. So im going to focus quite a bit on Public Opinion and well talk about policy as a reflection of that Public Opinion. At the start of the war in europe. My arg
Germany invades poland and world war ii breaks out that. Week what is on americans minds in 1939 is staying out of war. And you see in the section of the exhibition, deep concern in the United States about spies, about nazi spies in the United States. At the time called a fifth column. Americans are asked by gallup to believe that journeys are already beginning to organize to deploy spies. 71 of americans say yes. You see the fear of spice played out in our Popular Culture and in our political culture the First American movie, big studio movie to take on naziism is a warner bros. Movie. Its based on a true story of a nazi spy ring in the United States. I am a nazi spy. I am one of thousands stationed in every part of the United States to steal the secrets of your national defense. There are spies stations in brooklyn, philadelphia, newport. In places like buffalo, seattle, washington. Our trial in the United States federal court, brought to the attention of a startled nation, this amaz
In the 1939, on september 1st, germany invades poland, and world war ii breaks out that week. What is on americans mind in 1939 is staying out of war. And you see in this section of the exhibition, deep concern in the United States about spies. About nazi spies in the United States. At the time, called a fifth column. Americans are asked by gallup, do you believe germany has begun to organize a fifth column, 70 of americans say yes. You see these fear of spies play out and our Popular Culture and in our political culture. The First American movie, big studio move it to take on nazism is a warner brother movies from 1939, called confessions of a nazi spy. We are showing a trailer here, it is based on a true story of a nazi spy in the United States. I may not spy. I am one of thousands stationed in every part of the United States to steal the secrets of your national defense. There are spy stationed and all of their, the newport news and we the chief United States inspector is sending ou
What is on americans minds in 1935 is staying out of war. Of you see in this section the exhibition deep concern in the United States about spies, about nazi spies in the United States. At the time, called a fifth column. Americans are asked by gallup if they believe that germany is starting to organize a fifth column of spies in this country. And 71 say yes. You start to see these fears of spies play out in our Popular Culture and in our political culture. The First American movie, big studio movie to take on nazism is a warner bros. Movie. From 1939 called confessions of a nazi spy. We are showing the trailer here. Its based on a true story of a nazi spy ring in the United States. I am a nazi spy. I am one of thousands stationed in every part of the United States to steal the secrets of your national defense. There are spies stationed in all of the navy yards in brooklyn, philadelphia, newport news. There are nazi agents in the eroplane and munition factories in places like buffalo,