We will then examine the United States' entry into both World Wars and also how the United States dealt with the USSR in the Cold War. ... While isolationism was the correct approach to take in the formative years of the United States, it would have been dangerous and devastating for the country to carry over this approach during and after the rise of a militant Germany. ... Washington embraced the idea of isolationism during these years because the United States was not yet the dominant world power that it would become. ... The Monroe Doctrine provides another example of United States...

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The Spanish Civil War continues to shape people's lives. ... Thousands volunteered from around the world to join the International Brigades and to defend the Second Republic, including famous writers such as George Orwell. ... On the outbreak of the war Spain had the world's fourth largest reserves of gold. During the war approximately $500 million, or two-thirds of Spain's gold reserves, were shipped to the Soviet Union. This flagrant abuse of Spain's instability and volatile state by some of the world's largest powers could easily have been avoided, had there only ...

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Wilson dismissed traditional American political isolationism, making America a world power, citizens of the world.4 Most people did agree that the nations increasing economic and military power obligated and permitted it to play a larger political role in the world. ... Determined to avoid entering World War I, he rigorously pursued neutrality. ... In the end not even Woodrow Wilson could keep the United States out of World War I. ... Instead two events occurred destroying all hopes of neutrality. ... In April 1917 Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. ...

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The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to European political and military affairs. The predominant attitude was what in the 20th century is called isolationism. The good feelings, perhaps better termed complacency, were stimulated by two events of 1816, during the presidency of James Madison: the enactment of the first U.S. protective tariff and the establishment of the second National Bank. ... How often have statesmen been motiva...

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