Non-interventionism

Examples of Non-interventionism in the following topics:

• 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.
  • Non-interventionism continued throughout the nineteeth century.
  • Yet non-interventionist sentiment remained; the U.S.
  • Non-interventionism took a new turn after the Crash of 1929.

• 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.
  • 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.
  • When in 1939 Germany invaded Poland, marking the outbreak of World War II, Americans were divided over the question of non-interventionism.
  • However, there were still many who held on to non-interventionism.

• Issues with the Traditional Political Spectrum

  • Other axes include: the focus of political concern (communitarianism vs. individualism), responses to conflict (conversation vs. force), the role of the church (clericalism vs. anticlericalism), foreign policy (interventionism vs. non-interventionism), and freedom (positive liberty vs. negative liberty).

• Postwar Isolationism

  • Despite the United States participation in World War I and Wilson's international efforts to establish a new, peaceful global order, non-interventionist tendencies of US foreign policy were in full force in the aftermath of the war.
  • Non-interventionism or isolationism took a new turn during the Great Depression.
  • The policy aimed to replace earlier military interventions of the United States in Latin America with the principle of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America.
  • When in 1939 Germany invaded Poland, marking the outbreak of World War II, Americans were divided over the question of non-interventionism.
  • However, there were still many who held on to non-interventionism.

• World War II

  • The war in Europe split the American people into two distinct groups: non-interventionists and interventionists.
  • However, there were still many who held on to the age-old tenets of non-interventionism.
  • Non-interventionists rooted a significant portion of their arguments in historical precedent, citing events such as Washington's farewell address and the failure of World War I.
  • Domestic support for non-interventionism disappeared.
  • Compare and contrast the arguments made by interventionists and non-interventionists with respect to American involvement in World War II

• Initial Reactions

  • During the years 1914-1917, when the United States pursued its policy of non-intervention, tensions with belligerent European powers grew.
  • Yet, at the outbreak of the war, the United States pursued a policy of non-interventionism, avoiding conflict while trying to broker a peace.

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • The American counter-proposal of November 26 required Japan to evacuate all of China without conditions and conclude non-aggression pacts with Pacific powers.
  • Domestic support for non-interventionism, which had been traditionally strong and fading since the fall of France in 1940, disappeared.

• American Isolationism

  • In the wake of the First World War, non-interventionist tendencies of US foreign policy gained ascendancy.
  • The economic depression that ensued after the Crash of 1929, also continued to encourage non-intervention.
  • The war in Europe split the American people into two camps: non-interventionists and interventionists.
  • However, there were still many who held on to non-interventionism.
  • Non-interventionists rooted a significant portion of their arguments in historical precedent, citing events such as Washington's farewell address and the failure of World War I.

• Span of Government

  • Political interventionism can include methods such as sanctions on a foreign economy or international trade with similar results to protectionism, or other international sanctions
  • Interventionism is a term for a policy of non-defensive (proactive) activity undertaken by a nation-state, or other geo-political jurisdiction of a lesser or greater nature, to manipulate an economy or society.
  • The most common applications of the term are for economic interventionism (a state's intervention in its own economy), and foreign interventionism (a state's intervention in the affairs of another nation as part of its foreign policy).
  • Political interventionism can include methods such as sanctions on a foreign economy or international trade with similar results to protectionism, or other international sanctions through international cooperation decisions guarding international law or global justice.

• Interventionism

  • As the world was quickly drawn into WWII, the United States' isolationist policies were replaced by more interventionism.
  • The war in Europe split the American people into two distinct groups: non-interventionists and interventionists.
  • After WWII, the United States took a policy of interventionism in order to contain communist influence abroad.
  • 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.
  • After WWII, the US's foreign policy was characterized by interventionism.