6th Annual Judith Ramaley Celebration of Research and Creative Scholarship
 
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Poster #18

The United States, Neutrality, and the Spanish Civil War

Andrew Buisman

Faculty Mentor: Matthew Lindaman

The Spanish Civil War and the United States’ steadfast neutrality in the face of civilian and foreign pressure affected the government’s position on foreign intervention significantly over the course of the 20^th century. Through research using primary and secondary sources from both the United States and Spain a clear picture emerges of a torn President Roosevelt and a staunchly isolationist government, while other American supported the Republican cause through volunteer enlistment and American Roman Catholics gave monetary and political support to Francisco Franco’s Nationalists. The research gathered will help to clarify the situation in both the American continents and Europe during the road to the Second World War.