Conflict over Policy and Politics, 1949–1952

Abstract

Although he had been influenced by internationalism of Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover became an ardent isolationist after World War I. Certainly, the foreign policy he advocated as president had clear lines of limitation on U.S. involvement in European affairs. As the United States faced possible war in Europe in 1939, Hoover was among those opposing the Roosevelt administration’s interventionist policies. Once war was declared, however, Hoover supported the effort and devoted his time to writing The Problems of Lasting Peace and other works on how peace could be sustained in a dangerous world.