Some said the distress of these years was because of disillusionment caused by U.S. participation in World War I. ... This act, which was destined to be extended for the length of World War II, began with an appropriation of $7 billion. ... In 1987 the two leaders did agree to scrap land-based nuclear missiles of intermediate and shorter range, a small fraction of their nuclear arsenals. ... Although the United States abandoned isolationism as a policy after World War II, isolationist attitudes continue to rise up from time to time. With the end of the Cold War struggle between the Unit...

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They brought an end to the second World War. ... The United State's isolationism in the 1930s, ended in 1941. ... He believed he did the world a favor, by ending the war and preventing any more deaths. ... He was immediately informed of the top secret Manhattan Project, while facing the chaotic world in the midst of World War II. ... Truman's decision may have ended the Second World War, but he started the nuclear age. ...

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If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. ... After making the decision to end World War II by dropping to atomic bombs on Japan, Truman entered a period of time that he would not even out last. ... To begin to talk about life after the end of War World II without discussing the war in detail may due it some injustice, but after all it is only a fifteen page paper. The war ended and the world was thrown into new territory, there were essentially two superpowers left in the world. ... Not long after the ...

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