America First Movement

The America First movement was a major isolationist force in U.S. politics before World War II, combining anti-war sentiment, economic nationalism, and suspicion of foreign alliances. It collapsed after Pearl Harbor, but its ideas — both legitimate arguments about non-interventionism and darker strains of nativism and antisemitism — have echoed through American political history ever since. SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast LEARN MORE: www.historyshortspodcast.com READ THE NEWSLETTER: https://historyshorts.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices