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Isolationism in Post-World War I America

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The isolation of the North American continent gave birth to the isolationist belief that America has the freedom to pick which wars to get involved with. Not only were Americans physically distant from European problems, but also believed that they were superior and culturally distant from the Europeans...
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American intervention in foreign affairs therefore was believed to be a waste of time, money, and lives. In the last weeks of World War I, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne were the only two major battles that American troops fought in, yet the death toll was more than fifty thousand. The American people believed that the soldiers' lives were lost in vain fighting a war whose outcome they did not significantly affect...
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