... the political shift. When German, Japan, and Italy first began making territorial demands, the US and other Western Democracies appeased and ignored the dictators, wanting nothing more than to avoid war. However, it seems that Franklin D Roosevelt realized what was happening before most people, and saw the error in appeasement. This can clearly be seen through the FDR's quarantine speech, Munich ... more territorial demands, and containing them in the areas they now held. This, hopefully, would have been able to be accomplished without going to war. This would have been a classic exampl...

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