Quarantine The Aggressors By Sherwood Anderson Summary

Prior to World War II, America was coming out of the Great Depression. Many favored isolationism and were suffering financially. Roosevelt was compelled to give the greater part of his attention regarding battling the impacts of the Depression meanwhile steadily moving the United States away from isolationism. From 1937, as the international circumstance deteriorated, Roosevelt's interest in foreign policy grew. With the approach of war, the White House turned out to be the center for addressing foreign policy issues. As a result, President Roosevelt wanted to assist those who were struggling and secluding themselves and at the same time asses the situation with Japan and Germany. Economics, national security, and democratic values were factors in which influenced Roosevelt’s

Ninety percent of the population who wanted to live in these conditions would have to be protected from the other ten percent who were “threatening a breakdown of all international order and law,” which essentially meant he wanted to “Quarantine the Aggressors.” Consequently, an advertisement written by Sherwood Anderson in The New York Times describes Nazi and Japanese goals to wipe democracy “from the face of the earth”, presenting the public with an alternative which is accompanied with primitive government and chaos. This ad reflects public opinion of the consequences of the loss of democracy worldwide. Anderson described the word if the Allies were to lose the war. All democratic values would be gone and dictatorships will rule. On January 6, 1942, President Roosevelt in his speech to congress know as “Four Freedoms,” promoted democracy from the beginning. Roosevelt declared that he was willing to send endless amounts of weaponry such as “ships, planes, tanks, and guns” if that was what is took to secure