American Neutrality During World War 1

Neutrality Before the start of World War 1 President Wilson addressed the Americans and declared that every “man who really loves America will act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality”. The diversity of the United States would cause problems for the country and it was laid out that America would not participate in the war and should stay neutral. However, many more wars followed soon after the war was declared on Germany by the very man who had laid out America’s foreign policy as neutral. The US has fallen short of its ideals in the context of foreign affairs because the original goal was to stay neutral but instead, the US participated in numerous wars. World War 1, also known as the Great War, was one of the largest conflicts the United
had embargoed Japan and cut off their oil supply even though the U.S. could have profited greatly from those sales, further adding to the bias of the United States towards the Allied Powers in Europe. These American-supported wars on different continents continued after World War 2 into the Cold War. After the end of World War 2, Korea was split into North Korea supported by the Soviet Union, and South Korea by America. The U.S. had created NSC 68 to bolster its defenses and curb Soviet expansion. Outlined in this plan was the “ attempt, and accept the risks inherent in it, to bring about order and justice by means consistent with the principles of freedom and democracy.” This directly led to the increase of funding to the military to protect U.S. interests on foreign soil. There would be no need to militarize America if it had followed the original U.S. foreign policy of staying neutral in foreign conflicts. America could not be neutral by sending aid to Korea and fighting indirectly against the Soviet Union. This was not against the United States' interest but was against the original foreign policy, of neutrality in foreign affairs, laid out by President Woodrow Wilson before entering the Great
The American intervention in the U.K. and Iranian affairs led to the downfall of one country and colonization by another. The same pattern of events happened in Guatemala when the U.S. bought land there and was going to lose that because Guatemala wanted to grow its economy. The CIA’s “covert ‘Operation PBSUCCESS,’ were among several hundred records released by the Agency on May 23, 1997 on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in Guatemala”. The coup in Guatemala was a war caused because the U.S. had to protect their interests, in this case money and land. Then again, the U.S. interfered in foreign affairs just a couple of years later. Uruguay was going to be led by the Frente Amplio in a leftist government; however, the U.S. and Brazil made efforts to stop that from happening. Documents released in 2002 “ show that Nixon was aware of – and may in fact have been complicit in – Brazilian efforts to influence the election results”. Another coup was initiated by the U.S. in Chile to overthrow the communist leader Allente, an avid