The Role Of Isolation In America After World War I

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After World War Ⅰ, America wanted to remain isolated from the rest of the world. However the Americans changed to isolated to become decidedly interventionist after World War Ⅱ ended. After World War Ⅱ Americans became the Smokey-the-bear. After World War Ⅰ, Americans wanted to remain isolated from the rest of the world. The reason Americans wanted to stay isolated. The reason Americans wanted to stay isolated is because if they stayed isolated, they would not need another war. The Americans also could stay out of the other countries affairs. America got pulled into World War Ⅰ by trade. America's got pulled into the war by trade because they were trading with other countries with their merchant ships and Germany started to blow up the merchant ships with torpedoes. The Germans did not care if the ships were civilian passenger carriers, …show more content…
When Germany started to blow up the Americans merchant ships, the americans tried to talk to them, but the Germans did not change what they were doing. After that the Americans know that the only thing that how fix this problem is that they had to join the war even though no one wanted to do that. After the war was over the Americans did not get a say in what is going to happen to Germein and what the solution will be. The reason the Americans did not get a say is because they were the last people to join the war and everyone else were in it almost from the start and they have been through more and the Americans did and they just did not get a say. After World War Ⅱ Americans changed to isolated to become decidedly interventionist after World War Ⅱ ended. The reason America changed to bring isolated to

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