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This 6 page paper discusses the points of view of those who favored U.S. intervention in the First World War and those who opposed it. It also discusses the labor movement at the time. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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of the world. It had come through the cataclysm of the Civil War and with the Spanish-American War, emerged onto the world stage. But the growing pains were difficult and
it was by no means certain that the United States would - or wanted to - take a leading position in international affairs. This paper discusses the points of view
of those who favored U.S. intervention in the First World War and those who opposed it. It also discusses the labor movement at the time. Interventionist and Anti-Participation Positions Although
it was Woodrow Wilson who signed the war declaration, it was also Wilson who won re-election in 1916 with the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War" (Faragher et al,
2000, p. 651). Wilson was a progressive who had concentrated on domestic reforms only to find his greatest challenge was international diplomacy, something at which he had no experience (Faragher
et al, 2000). Wilson, along with "most corporate and political leaders of the day, emphasized foreign investments and industrial exports as the keys to the nations prosperity" (Faragher et al,
2000, p. 648). He was a strong supporter of free trade, though he disguised his idea of a "dynamic, expansive American capitalism in terms of a moral crusade" (Faragher et
al, 2000, p. 648). It appears that Wilson saw American industry as a way to spread democracy; he told a group of salesmen that they should "... go out and
sell goods that will make the world more comfortable and more happy, and convert them to the principles of America" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 648). The idea of conflating
morality and American capitalism (a sort of "whats good for America is good for the world" idea) was attractive to many, but it was also a problematic doctrine. It
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