The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s took its toll in different ways throughout the world. In Europe, political power shifted to _______ and imperialist governments in countries like Germany and Italy. In Asia, a resource-starved Japan began to expand aggressively, invading China to control a sphere of _______ in the Pacific Ocean.
The United States, however, chose to withdraw from world affairs and concentrate on its own economic problems. _______ believed that problems in the U.S. could only be exacerbated by intervening in international affairs. Even after Hitler invaded Poland, Roosevelt maintained U.S. _______ , though he did indirectly support the British and the Allies in their fight against Nazi Germany by supplying them with American-made weapons and equipment through the _______ program.
