Related history - beware, I'm talking out of my ars.

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Before WW1, the US was very isolationist. Then it finally got involved in WW1 because of a threat by Germany and Mexico. The US then became isolationist after WW1, while many other countries decided to do the same as well, leaving France and the new, small nations weak and open. Now, it appears, that the US is the main country, aside from the UK, that is interested in foreign stuff. In addition, it appears as if everything is flipped up-side down in retrospect of Pre-WW1.

:odd: Odd, huh?
 
Wasn't the Zimmerman telegram (Germany to Mexico) just the final push? German submarines were sinking many American ship and ships with Americans on them in European waters.
 
I forget what the telegram was called, I SHOULD know it, since I'm taking my final for AP European History this Wednesday....:eek:
 
In all fairness it was Pearl Harbour which ended its isolationist stance. It got itself involved in WW2, then decided to try and tie up all the loose ends which I guess has led to all the **** we're suffering today.

Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, the US was involved in all three and more. The attack on Pearl Harbour changed it all.

And the UK was always interested in the world anyway.
 
It's interesting to bring up these different periods in history. I would have said that in the pre-WW1 and inter-war years, the US was focussed on domestic issues, to the exclusion of those going on in the world.

It seems that perhaps that situation is now reversed.
 
Originally posted by milefile
It would seem so...
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Which is what I said earlier.......

Oh, and the US was also involved in Yugoslavia in 1999, wasn't it? But then again, wasn't that NATO as well?
 

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