International Involvement: 1980's

International Involvement: 1980s

Starting in the 1920s, under the Hoover Administration, the United States practiced an isolationist policy, a national policy of abstaining from political or economic entanglements with other countries. After Hoover left office, the presidents after him did not keep going along with this policy. Instead, they started to dive into political and economic entanglements with other countries. Presidents were very hesitant about doing so. For example, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was very hesitant about joining World War II until it affected them directly. After that war, the United States was ready to get involved in international affairs because during the war, so many people’s lives were taken because of the hesitation the United States went through in deciding whether or not to join the war. Many countries such as Cuba and the Soviet Union hated that the United States was becoming involved internationally and tried to stop them. The United States d...