American Isolationism After WW1

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Europe, especially when it came to Great Britain, for in essence, the isolationists believed that "America had the capability to help the rest of the world through the build-up of its own prosperity and freedom rather than by political or diplomatic involvement in Europe." 3
One of the greatest events that essentially created the desire for an isolationist policy in the United States was World War I which was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Many historians have noted at least three major reasons why the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand forced so many nations into war-first, the competition for colonies and for military and economic might was a prime concern among the major European powers; second, the ethnic and political conflicts between and within the empires in eastern Europe were steadily rising before the war began in 1914, and third, the system of military alliances that were present in Europe at ...

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Europeans from many nations on the western front fought in the trenches and Russia faced a political crisis in the form of the Bolshevik Revolution, Americans sought to determine exactly how and in what ways the war overseas would affect their lives and society as a whole. President Woodrow Wilson's declaration that the war was something "which we Americans must have nothing to do with, whose causes cannot reach us" 5 was obviously a huge blunder, for it and the President himself could not prevent the war from directly affecting every aspect of American society. Both Germany and England attempted to convince Americans with much propaganda and explanation that America's entry into the war ...

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