Isolationism In The 19th Century

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The word "isolationism" has been used—most frequently in ridicule —to entitle the approaches and rules of those Americans who have advised the continued loyalty in the twentieth century to what they imagined to have been the key component of American foreign strategy in the nineteenth century, that is, the prevention of political and military pledges to or unions with foreign powers, mainly those of Europe. It was most nearly valid to American plan between the two world wars, especially after 1935, when the U.S. Congress strived to isolate the country from a progressively dangerous world condition through the portrayal of so-called impartiality laws. Since World War II, strives to maximize or decrease the infinitely amplified American vows

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