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Post Test 3_U.S. HIST from 1865

Post Test 3_U.S. HIST from 1865

Q Describe the United States’ movement from isolationism to expansion-mindedness in the final decades of the nineteenth century. What ideas and philosophies underpinned this transformation?

Q Discuss how politics of the 1920s reflected the new postwar mood of the country. What did the Harding administration’s policies attempt to achieve, and how?Why was the peace process at the Great War’s end so lengthy? What complications did Wilson encounter in his attempts to promote the process and realize his postwar vision?

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The United States shifted its ideology from isolationism to expansionism in the final decades of the nineteenth century. This expansionism was the consequence of various factors at play that included the Social Darwinism theory and then the economic interest. The social Darwinism meant “survival of the fittest” and the United States believed that they were superior in all sense whether it was their institutions or their ideas that helped them to survive unlike other races and other countries.