Ww1 American Isolationism Analysis

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Despite all of the things going on in the world, most of the American population leaned toward isolationism. Americans felt that many actions of other countries threatened the country, but they did not want to become involved overseas. The reason for this attitude was due to the scars cause by the Great Depression and World War One. People were not short to forget the tens of millions who lost their life in World War One. The United States did not have money for war either, they were trying to re-gather things at the home front. We see that when the nation turned against immigration, people were overall anti-European due to many of the radical ideas that originated such as socialism and communism. I would also say that the League of Nations

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