USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The US was isolationist in the period leading up to World War II even while moving to become more involved once war broke out. It was the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor that brought the US into the war. The US has been isolationist at other times, with the main example being the US neutrality during World War I.

Detailed explanation-2: -isolationism, national policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries. Key People: Woodrow Wilson Robert A.

Detailed explanation-3: -Isolationism is a political philosophy advocating a national foreign policy that opposes involvement in the political affairs, and especially the wars, of other countries. Thus, isolationism fundamentally advocates neutrality and opposes entanglement in military alliances and mutual defense pacts.

Detailed explanation-4: -Public Opinion Is Not Isolationist Respectively, 68 percent and 59 percent of Americans say alliances with Europe and East Asia benefit both the United States and its respective allies. 73 percent support maintaining or increasing American commitments to NATO.