The Involvement Of The United States In the World Wars
To understand the United States' involvement in these wars, we must first be aware of the role each of these policies plays within our nation and the importance of these four objectives to the American people. Democracy, which is the classic liberal political tradition, ensures the right of the people to determine their own government and is the foundation upon which our nation was founded. Manifest Destiny is defined as the responsibility to work to living in social harmony, or the belief that the U.S. is to show everyone how to live best in mutual striving and social harmony. Humanitarianism is described as the doctrine of ethics and humility toward the welfare of mankind worldwide. Economic expansion refers to increasing the American market overseas, which in turn guarantees jobs for the American middle class. These four objectives have been key factors in the defining and shaping of our country throughout its history, and they continue to influence our nation on the global spectrum as we enter the 21st century. The U.S.' involvement in World Wars I and II did not occur immediately following the beginning of the wars. Rather, in WWI, President Wilson, who had built his re-election campaign around the slogan, "he ke
Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose primary objectives were both similar to and different from Wilson's, entered the U.S. into WWII after the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor. His two major concerns for doing this were his obligation to protect American democracy, and to increase economic expansion, which had ceased to exist in the decade prior to WWII as a result of the Great Depression. Although all four major foreign policy objectives played a role in the U.S.' entrance into WWII, I will explore these two policies in depth using speeches of FDR's that provide his rationale for U.S. involvement. Roosevelt knew that entrance into the war would help boost the crippled economy of the U.S. both at home and abroad. Again, humanitarianism for unfair treatment of citizens in other countries concerned Americans and contributed to U.S. involvement in the war. Concentration camps set up by Nazis, and the inhumane treatment of Jews, were of grave concern for the U.S. as millions of innocent lives were being taken. So, once again it was our responsibility to show the rest of the world how to live in social harmony with one another, playing the role of global policeman, intervening in foreign crisis in hopes of restoring global and protecting our own domestic tranquility. U.S. involvement in the Cold War did not occur due to any aggressive physical action launched against our nation. Rather, it was the antagonistic views between the U.S.' and Soviet Union's beliefs of universal qualifications of it's own particular ideology which brought the two countries head to head over a war-torn Europe which once had been the center of world affairs (Bailey, 891). This tense standoff, known as the Cold War lasted four and a half decades. I will explore the importance of protecting democracy within our own nation, as many citizens feared the spread of communism, and felt the threats both globally and domestically with its expansion. Both humanitarianism and manifest destiny were contributing factors to U.S.' involvement in this "war of words" and I will inve
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