123 School Work

Explain the importance in relation to other factors of isolationism in the development of Untied States

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  Isolationism was an important factor because it lifted morale and had specific strategic and economic advantages. Isolationism is the idea that America could withdraw from the world, especially Europe. This started after the First World war when moral was low. The American general public thought that, after all their sacrifices in the war, they had not gained or benefited much from getting involved with european affairs as shown in source B. "The American people were disillusioned because their sacrifices in World War 1 had not lead to a better world." This better world was mentioned in the Monroe doctrine as America was the "new world". It expressed that they were self sufficient, therefore needed no other country and could be isolationist. Source A shows this traditional attitude, were the "negative" isolationists who were in congress at the time, were not really bothered in foreign affairs, they felt that they were "far enough away from danger and economically self sufficient" therefore America did need to get involved in foreign events. Hitler's dictatorship concerned most of the global powers, because of his obvious disregard the Treaty of Versailles. But America unconcerned itself, because people in Congress, like the "negative" isolationists felt that other countries could do as they please and they "couldn't be bothered" to get involved...