Christian+Burgans+Isolationism+vs+Interventionism

Isolationism vs interventionism

sited sources: 1.) http://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/american-isolationism

History of isolationism

2.) http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/great-debate-internationalists-vs-isolationists

pros and cons of both

3.) http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CDOC-106sdoc21/pdf/GPO-CDOC-106sdoc21.pdf

Pros of isolationism

4.)http://www.ushistory.org/us/50a.asp

history of US and isolationism

5.) http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/neutrality-war-united-states-and-europe-1921-1941

war neutrality pros of isolationism

6.) http://moodle.kingsley.k12.mi.us/pluginfile.php/15605/mod_resource/content/1/Prelude-to-WW2.ppt

WWII ideas of isolationism pros

7.) http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-1963/conflict-abroad-and-social-change-at-home/isolationism-follows-peace.php

pros isolationism

8.) http://dublin.usembassy.gov/mobile//ireland/econ_isol.html

pros interventionism

9.) http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2014/2/remarks-by-senator-john-mccain-to-the-national-defense-industrial-association

pros amd cons of both isolationism and interventionism

10.) http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=8350

pros of interventionism


 * __Isolating the United States__**


 * By: Christian Burgans**

The United States should be an isolationist country for the betterment of stability, becoming of a more independent nation, and to further increase the protection and safety of its citizens. Isolationism is the idea that a country should focus its efforts on its own issues rather than on affairs with other countries. Being isolationist means a country does not get involved in trade, conflicts, treaties, or contact with other countries unless another country directly threatens the isolationist country. Interventionalism is the idea that countries should openly trade and asosiate with one another. Interventionalism often result in conflicts due to disagreements. Interventionalists trade freely, make treaties with other countries, and often get involved in conflicts that don't always concern them.

Isolationism could increase the United States stability. Interventionism hurts economy by exhausting resources on shipping to other countries. Money from trade transports could be saved. More money would flow within the United States rather than in and out of the country. International trade makes money but it takes away money as well. The U.S. relies to much on international trade when it doesn't have to. There is many resources within the nation to sustain it.

As a nation, the U.S. is too interventionist. Isolationism could make the U.S. more independent. Part of the American dream is the be independent and use what you have to be successful. Trade within the U.S. boosts it's own money flow rather than use support of resources and goods from other countries. That trade with other countries is not needed. The U.S. can utilize its own resouces to make its own things. Using foreign countries for finance weakens the country more the more dependent it is on those foreign goods amd materials. With all the natural resources in the United States, it doesn't have to rely on international trade.

The United States could be safer under a isolationist way of life. The military would be stationed in this country rather than over seas which makes our home defense much stronger and safer from terroristic threats. The U.S. could stay out of foreign affairs and not get involved in conflicts that don't concern them directly. Less resources and funding would be spent on the unnecessary transporting and stationing of military personnel and materials far away.

Isolationism would improve the United States in many ways. The fore fathers wanted the country to stay neatral in foreign affairs and to not rely on international trade. That means the idea of the U.S. was to be isolated. To isolate the U.S. would be do benefit it in strength, stability of economy, independence, and safety of its citizens.

References

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Edsitement.neh.gov, (2014). The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists | EDSITEment . [online] Available at: http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/great-debate-internationalists-vs-isolationists [Accessed 7 May. 2014].

History.state.gov, (2014). American Isolationism in the 1930s - 1937–1945 - Milestones - Office of the Historian . [online] Available at: http://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/american-isolationism [Accessed 7 May. 2014].

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