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Hoover's Attempt To Foster Global Peace
Considering the devastating impact of the Second World War, criticism directed at Hoover for pre-emptively attempting to foster global peace is undeserved, even if the First World War debts he insisted on maintaining allowed the Nazi Party to stir-up German resentment toward the rest of the Western World. That said, the state of the economy has always played a major role in the outcome of U.S. elections, and it is thus unsurprising that at a time of such mass hardship at home, discussions of foreign policy failed to resonate with voters.
Like his stance on domestic affairs, the internationalist remarks in Hoover's 1932 address are illustrative of a president whose political impulses were completely inappropriate for the period of his leadership. Although it may be ostensibly appear as though his defeat in the …show more content…
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