Why Do We Call America World Police

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America has been in many conflicts such as the Korean War, World War 1, and World War 2. I was going to write this paper on the Middle Eastern campaigns but the wars listed above were the most changing to America and other countries. I think that there really was not anything political behind these wars except for stopping dictatorships. Does the U.S. really get involved in everything to say no but to call America world police would be wrong? In the following paragraphs I will show how America is not the world police.

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During world war one, Wilson wanted to stay neutral in the war. He wanted to repair our country. He was obligated to enter the war. Germany was using unrestricted submarine warfare.
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Our country was in bad economic times FDR wanted to stay out of it and fix America. He was creating jobs for the people. So to enter a war during this hard time wouldn’t of helped the way he looked at it. He did created cash and carry to aid the other countries during this time of war. It wasn’t till Hitler declared war directly onto the U.S. that we got involved. Japan and Russia was Hitler 's biggest allies in WW2. Japan felt dishonored by the Treaty of Versailles they really didn’t have a say in it. Russia ended up playing both sides they were not loyal to either sides. Churchill knew …show more content…
April 1951 Gen. MacArthur is removed MacArthur. Truman believed that bombing China would’ve led to a much bigger war. The treatment of POWs in the Korean War, North Koreans did not treat their POWs very well. Talking with a POW of the Korean War the treatment you received as far as being a POW was not sanitary. By the end of the Korean War representatives from the United States and China met in Geneva to talk about uniting ever the countries cannot come to an agreement and create yet to this day remains

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