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Isolationism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isolationism is a foreign policy which combines a non-interventionist military policy and a political policy of economic nationalism (protectionism). In other words, it asserts both of the following:...
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United States non-interventionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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After World War II began in Europe in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United States. Canada declared war on Germany almost at once. As part of the British Commonwealth ... 10, 1939, one week after Great Britain did. They argued that an Axis victory would endanger democracies everywhere.
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isolationism n. A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries ... All such engagements were unilateral decisions by the United States and hence did not violate the classic isolationism espoused in the eighteenth century.
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Isolationism has long been a characteristic of the American state of mind, either as official policy or a subliminal substratum that outcrops from time to time as "America First" or "Fortress America" movements.
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As doctrine and as program, Senator Taft's isolationism of a decade ago is surely dead. But the Old Isolationism was, of course, far more than doctrine and program. It was, above all, a set of intense emotions--emotions deeply founded in the American experience and sharply etched on the American psychology.
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