Two weeks later came the news that Washington had feared: Revolutionary France had declared war on Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands. ... The United States did not fully realize this when the First World War started. Woodrow Wilson wanted to continue the United States" policy of isolationism, but it just was not possible. The United States had to enter the war. ... For a nation to fully grow, containment and isolationism will never work....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1943 Congress declared its resolution to end isolationism and adopt collective security as the postwar foreign policy of the United States. Yet with the end of World War II, the containment of Russia and its allies became the concentration of the executive branch planners. ... The Vietnam War was the breaking point of the relationship between Congress and the President, and the development of the War Powers Resolution. Although it became the focus of conflict between the two braches during the Grenada intervention in 1983, Congress no longer insisted on the implementation of the War Powe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate