eastern world. This was basically the accepted perspective taken by the United States up untilabout the first world war when President Woodrow Wilson decided to plunge into the wareffort. Then a peacekeeping association came about called the League of Nations, whichWilson helped propose, but the United States Senate gave it a firm “no”. This keptthe United States in its loner state once again. Some years later the United States entered a period of awakening concerninggetting out and about in the world. We journeyed into a time of Internationalism after thesecond world war but it was many earlier events that led up to this, particularly ourinteraction with Latin America. Back when the United States was just breaking awayfrom Britain and starting as a nation, President James Monroe came up with a declarationcalled the Monroe Doctrine. In 1823 he wrote this, telling European nations to keeptheir noses in their own hemisphere. What Monroe didn’t know was that he wasestablishing a beginning to a leadership responsibility in not only the western hemisphere,but in the entire world. The United States began sticking up for nations such as Mexicoand Puerto Rico, and soon got involved in various other Latin American countries. Infact, the United States got involved eight times from 1904 to 1934, then again in theaffairs of Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and the destruction of the leftistgovernment of Brazil after the second world war. It was during the beginning ofWorld War II that the United States began to get more involved. At first the UnitedStates tried to keep to itself and stay out of the fighting. But when Germany, Japan, andItaly tried to expand by force into China, Ethiopia, Poland, Austria, and present day Czech Republic, Britain and France declared war on Hitler, and the United States did nothing. It wasn’t until that fateful day of December 7 in 1941 when the United Stateshad had enoug...
