Interrupting The Ceremony Analysis

In the cartoon “Interrupting the Ceremony,” (1919) Uncle Sam (the groom which is the United States), and foreign entanglements (the bride) are getting married. The man breaking through the glass window is the United States Senate, and he is holding the Constitutional Rights. The ceremony was interrupted because the U.S. Senate was against the idea of the Unites States joining the League of Nations because they feared it would lead the U.S. into a whole bunch of foreign problems.
In The Accuser (1919/1920), The lady labeled the treaty of Versailles is lying on the floor dead. The man standing just above her holding the sword (the U.S. Senate) is the murderer. Humanity was there to show the world that the senate was the reason why there was no …show more content…
It was the first attempt to limit the military on a world wide scale, but it seemed like too much of a long shot or unrealistic to most. The U.S. obeyed the peace treaties, but Germany not obeying any treaty decided to rearm themselves.
The youth in Come on in. I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy (1936) is the young men in Europe. The youth’s father would be every man who has joined to fight in the war before him and have died. War can be appealing because it is disguised as a beautiful and sexy woman, and it can also be gross because of her skeleton face as she looks back at the man. The “Follies” sign is a poster displaying “Follies of 1936 starring Hitler and Mussolini which looks like they are stars of a movie or …show more content…
The Uncle was sending the dynamite to Britain. “The plan was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler’s advance while keeping America only indirectly involved in World War II.” (1)
In (1939) "We Told You It Wouldn't Work!" The League of Nations were too weak and powerless without the United States involved so they failed to stop the aggression from the German, Italian, and Japanese. Uncle Sam is sitting on the fire truck wheel which is the equipment they needed to continue on. Maybe, the people around Uncle Sam are gloating because they knew that the League was going to fail without their help.
In 1939, the Nazis and the Soviet Union signed a Non-Aggression Pact. The cartoonist's message of their respective countries in Rendevous was that both men (Hitler and Stalin) are greeting each other, and insulting each other so they seem to be pretending to be allies for their own benefit. “The German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact fell apart in June 1941, when Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union.”

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