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How accurate is it to describe US foreign policy between the two World Wars as isolationist?

“How accurate is it to describe US foreign policy between the two World Wars as isolationist?”

In his farewell address, George Washington warned American’s against getting involved in entangling alliances. Washington’s vision of a nation independent from the “toils of European ambition” was emphatically not a policy of isolationism or complete withdraw from international affairs as it is sometimes interpreted. His hope was only for a policy of strict “unilateralism” in world politics.
American foreign policy between the world wars is also often misinterpreted to be “isolationist,” implying the U.S. abstained from international affairs and assumed a sort of political autarky. Rather than isolationist, America assumed the same unilateralist foreign policy defined by Washington centuries before. “Its main aim” was not withdraw, Manfred Jones writes, but “the avoidance of political military commitments to, or alliances with, foreign powers” .
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