How Did The United States Become An Isolationist

United States Foreign Policy has shifted from being isolationist to being interventionist due to the United States being more involved around the world then when it first started out. being more involved than when we started wasn't what our first few presidents wanted, they wanted to be isolated from all the other foreign countries. Meaning we Americans didn't want their foreign affairs to involve the new country of the United States.
In the beginning of U.S. development we were isolationists due to Washington’s policy of not getting involved with any other country but our own. Washington believed that we should just focus on our own country instead of worrying about everyone else. He also believed that being isolated from everyone else would help our economy grow. Neutrality was the best course of action for America because it was caught in the middle of the war of 1812 which caused some loyalty problems in choosing which side we were going to aid, the French or the British. The french were an option because they aided in
The Truman Doctrine made a huge leap for what it actually was. Truman said that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.”I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.” (Truman Doctrine,1947). Truman is saying he believes that the United States should assist the free people to work out what to do with their own governments and their foreign affairs. In the Truman Doctrine he is talking about giving financial aid to the Greek Government because they are a democratic Country also Turkey. This doctrine is major part of the beginning of interventionism for the United States intruding in others foreign