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U.S foreign policy after the world wars
U.S. foreign policy has always been characterized by a commitment to free trade,
protection of American interests, and a concern for human rights. The United States
foreign policy after World War I was isolationism and withdrawal from world affairs, in
which they refused to join the League of Nations. After World War II, there was full
engagement with world affairs on a global scale.
In the United States foreign policy post World War I, there was restricted immigration
with the Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration Act. These were intended as
temporary legislation but these Acts proved in the long run the most important
turning-point in American immigration policy. The United States entered a period of
isolationism with the passage of the various Neutrality Acts of the 1930’s.
These were passed in response to the growing problems in Europe and Asia that
eventually led to World War II. The US was sought to limit future warfare by the
Kellogg-Briand Pact that outlawed war as a means of problem solving. The United
States sought to find communists and other agitators through the Espionage Act and
the Sedition Act.
In the United States foreign policy post World War II, the US was heavily involved in
foreign affairs through the policy of Containment hopes of stopping the spread of
Communism. The Truman Doctrine stated that the US would support Greece and
Turkey with economic military aid. The Marshall Plan was used to aid Europe where the
United States would give monetary support to help rebuild European economies after
the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet communism. There
were also Truman’s Point Four Program and The Berlin Airlift that were in the US
foreign policy. The United States sought to find and deport political agitator through
HUAC and the McCarthy Hearing. They wanted to eliminate future warfare through the
forming of NATO and the UN. During the Eisenhower administration the government
extended its containment policy to cover the Middle East as well as following the Suez
Canal crisis. This came to be known as the Eisenhower Doctrine.
In conclusion, the United States foreign policy after World War I was isolationism and
withdrawal from world affairs, in which they refused to join the League of Nations and
after World War II, there was full engagement with world affairs on a global scale.
There was restricted immigration with the Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration
Act. The US was heavily involved in foreign affairs through the policy of Containment
hopes of stopping the spread of Communism.