The US Foreign Policy Shift From Isolationism To Interventionism

Throughout the 20th century, the United States of America had struggled with thequestion of which ideology ought to be as the US foreign policy whether isolation or intervention. Precisely from the early 1920 up to 1975, U.S. foreign policy has clearly shifted from isolationism to interventionism. Hence, the dissertation deals with the transformation of US foreign policy from 1920 to 1975. It sketches the US involvement in World War II, besides it analyses the US intervention in Vietnam. The aim of the paper is to examine the evolution of US foreign policy. The present study attempts to provide a further analysis of the US foreign policy shift. It investigates the different circumstances that were behind the alteration of the US foreign policy from isolationism toward interventionism. The introductory chapter deals with the return to isolationism as the US foreign policy after World War I. Next chapter highlights the US Foreign Policy shift from Isolationism to Interventionism from 1935 to 1945. Last but not least the final chapter tackles the US foreign policy of interventionism from 1945 to 1975 with an illustration as a case study about the US intervention in Vietnam.