This excerpt is from an address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941.

Question

Which phrases from President Roosevelt's address reveal a turning away from U.S isolationism during World War II?

Select TWO correct answers.

"Nazi forces are not seeking more modifications in colonial maps or in minor European boundaries...

We have just now engaged in a great debate...

This decisions is the end of any attempts at appeasement in our land; the end of urging us to get along with dictators; the end of compromise with tyranny and the forces of oppression.

And the urgency is now.

We believe firmly that when our production output is in full swing, the democracies of the world will be able to prove that dictatorships cannot win. But, now, now, the time element is of supreme importance. Every plane, every other instrument of war, old and new, every instrument that we can spare now, we will send overseas because that is the common sense of strategy."

Question 2 options:

Nazi forces are not seeking more modifications in colonial maps or in minor European boundaries

We have just now engaged in a great debate

the end of compromise with tyranny and the forces of oppression.

We believe firmly that when our production output is in full swing,

Every plane, every other instrument of war, old and new, every instrument that we can spare now, we will send overseas because that is the common sense of strategy.

Answer 1

The phrases from President Roosevelt's address that reveal a turning away from U.S. isolationism during World War II are:

1. "the end of compromise with tyranny and the forces of oppression."
2. "Every plane, every other instrument of war, old and new, every instrument that we can spare now, we will send overseas because that is the common sense of strategy."

These statements indicate a commitment to taking action against oppressive forces and supporting other democracies in the fight against dictatorships, contrasting sharply with the isolationist sentiment that had prevailed prior to the U.S. engagement in the war.