How Did Ww1 Change Us Foreign Policy

Since World War I, one of the biggest problems the United states has been faced with is its foreign policy. Throughout the past 100 years, foreign policy has changed depending on the times and what is going on in the rest of the world. The time period between 1918, the end of World War, to 1953, the end of the Korean War. Essentially, U.S. foreign policy evolved from “isolationist protection of war” to”protective containment of Communism.” This change occurred due changes in America’s view of the world and the role it played on the world stage. At the end of World War I, America was frustrated with the toll that participating in the war had on them. This frustration caused the United States to increase its attempts to not entangle itself in foreign conflict. Foreign policy gradually began to shift as the United States began viewing itself as the guardian of democracy, and began
The war had heavily taxed American resources and its people causing many Americans to believe that they would be safer if they would stay out of the foreign affairs, a view having its roots in George Washington’s farewell address. This view’s had made itself apparent in studies of the American public, such as in 1935, when the Nye committee concluded that American participation in World War I was simply a result of a plot by arms manufacturers to increase their revenue. Also, Isolationism wasn’t an idea unique to the public, as the government was also isolationist. After World War I, President Woodrow Wilson drafted the “fourteen points”, his blueprint for world peace. In the document was the idea of a “league of nations”, a group of nations who would prevent conflict, a fledgling United Nations. However, congress did not want to bind the United States to a league of nations, which would mean continuous involvement in foreign affairs. Consequently, Congress rejected Wilson’s proposal of a League of