Throughout the 1930s, Key Pittman-Nevada’s senior senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-had been a strong advocate of isolationism and of an arms embargo by 1939, however, he reversed himself.ĭuring that year’s heated congressional debate over the Neutrality Act, he strongly acknowledged that America needed to involve itself in current world affairs. Nowhere was this more evident than in Congress. However, as the nation’s former allies were being dragged into the war, Nevadans’ attitudes began to change.
Since the 1920s, Nevada had subscribed enthusiastically to America’s policy of isolationism. Nevada emerged from the Great Depression in 1939 with barely enough time to catch its breath before being plunged into World War II. plant in Henderson, staffed mostly by women in this 1943 photo, played a crucial role in the war effort.
SeptemPlunged back into the nation’s conflicts, Nevada solidifies itself as a worldwide destination with the help of some infamous assistance.īY RON SOODALTER The Basic Magnesium, Inc.
