The economic rubble after the war had sparked political chaos that fed the communist movement. No one wanted ... three fifths of world trade. And the U.S. abandoned its prewar isolationism to ...

That doesn’t mean the isolationism movement is wavering as both presidential ... Founded in 1940, America First had one core policy: Stay out of World War II — an implicitly isolationist rhetoric.

“Isolationism ... the world stage, or taking up the difficult task of recalibrating what American leadership means at a global scale. If such a recalibration is foreclosed, if anti-war ...

Not so long ago, if you overheard a political conversation about isolationism ... around the world. One consequence of that prevailing attitude was a long and costly war in Vietnam, with a ...

With isolationism and ... world could be as little as one mishandled crisis away from pervasive Eurasian conflict.” Thankfully, the odds of another world war are tiny, because nobody has an ...

Brands tells the story of American isolationism by exploring this major divide - Americans who were torn between an inevitable entry into World War II and ... DETROW: One of the things that ...

Trump fell far short of his pledge to get working Americans back on their feet—an electoral liability but also one of the reasons that his ... movement to keep the United States out of World War II, ...