USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -If you refer to isolationism, you are referring to a country’s policy of avoiding close relationships with other countries and of not taking sides in disputes between other countries.

Detailed explanation-2: -isolationism, national policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Isolationists advocated non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts and non-entanglement in international politics. Although the United States took measures to avoid political and military conflicts across the oceans, it continued to expand economically and protect its interests in Latin America.

Detailed explanation-4: -Any country or region that adopts a strategy of reducing its dependence on world or regional trade or on economic and military alliances may be isolationist. It may not take any role in the deliberations of international organizations, although nominally it might be a member.

Detailed explanation-5: -Many nations in the past have been isolationist. These include China, Japan and Switzerland. The US attempted to do this in World War I and their failure brought more emphasis in the 1930s. The US was isolationist in the period leading up to World War II even while moving to become more involved once war broke out.