Isolationism had been the trend in American history, but after the Cold War it was to become a distant memory. World War II changed the distribution of world power to a point where all of the power was concentrated in the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States recognized that prosperity in America was dependant on a liberal international economy in Western Europe and Asia. American ... their freedom. This new policy would have a great effect on foreign affairs and an even greater effect on affairs at home. As communism began to spread, President Truman asserted America's respon...

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... of morality. The Second World War was a turning point for America. Instead of this war being another exception to her habits, it opened the eyes of many the United States" leaders. America needed to lead the world away from the "might makes right" balance-of-power politics and into the morals based ideology of American democracy. There were two main reasons that it ... was in the United States" national interest to participate in the Second World War. First, American values and beliefs, in the case of Hitler and fascism, were contrary to those of traditional isolationism. America has alw...

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