isolationism

Examples of isolationism in the following topics:

• Isolationism in the Edo Period

• Isolationism

  • Isolationism or non-interventionism was a tradition in America's foreign policy for its first two centuries.
  • For the first 200 years of United States history, the national policy was isolationism and non-interventionism.
  • This quasi-isolationism shows that the United States was interested in foreign affairs but was afraid that by pledging full support for the League, it would lose the ability to act on foreign policy as it pleased.

• Postwar Isolationism

  • Despite the United States' participation in World War I and President Wilson's efforts to shape the terms of the post-war peace, the majority of American politicians and the American public continued to support isolationism as long as the U.S. entry into World War II seemed unavoidable.
  • The United States' participation in World War I convinced many that the long-cherished position of American isolationism should be embraced even more fervently in the world changed by the first global conflict on such a massive scale.
  • A group of Senators known as the Irreconcilables, identifying with William Borah and Henry Cabot Lodge, two prominent Republican politicians known for their commitment to isolationism, had objected the clauses of the treaty which compelled America to come to the defense of other nations.
  • Non-interventionism or isolationism took a new turn during the Great Depression.
  • President Herbert Hoover repeated the United States' commitment to isolationism while his successor, Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, translated this commitment into a number of foreign policy decisions, including the introduction of Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America.

• The Mood in America

  • The outbreak of World War II and increasing threats from Nazi Germany and Japan changed the U.S. long-standing stand of isolationism and non-interventionism.
  • Non-interventionism or isolationism took a new turn during the Great Depression.
  • President Herbert Hoover repeated the United States' commitment to isolationism while his successor, Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, translated this commitment into a number of foreign policy decisions, including the introduction of Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America.
  • The post-World War I isolationism and non-interventionism in the U.S. resulted also in a number of so-called neutrality acts passed in the 1930s in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia.
  • Many conservatives, especially in the Midwest, in 1939–41 favored isolationism and opposed American entry into World War II.

• Interventionism

  • The US was not merely non-isolationist (i.e. the US was not merely abandoning policies of isolationism), but actively intervening and leading world affairs.
  • The Lend Lease Act allowed the United States to tip-toe from isolationism while still remaining militarily neutral.

• Witchcraft in New England

  • The episode is one of the most famous cases of mass hysteria, and has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations, and lapses in due process.

• American Isolationism

• The Spanish–American War

  • Before that war, the U.S. was characterized by isolationism, an approach to foreign policy that asserts that a nations' interests are best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance.

• Korea, Communism, and the 1952 Election

  • Taft said that isolationism was dead, but he saw little role for the United States in the Cold War.

• The Retreat from Progressivism

  • The policy called for an end to the abnormal era of the Great War, along with a call to reflect on three trends of the time: A renewed isolationism in reaction to the war, a resurgence of nativism, and a turning away from government activism.