Woodrow Wilson Foreign Policy Analysis

Paragraph 1- The Intro. The year is 2050 and the United States and the rest of the world have a harmonious relationship. How did this come to be and what does the United States need to do in order to be on this track? Back to reality in 2017 this country is trying to determine what course of action to take so this vision of harmony can become closer to a reality. While the notion of achieving global cooperation is pleasant, it is nigh on impossible. While it is depressing that there cannot be complete global harmony, there are still actions that can be taken to make a more harmonious world. United States foreign policy has fluctuated between ideologies for as long as it has been a country. The two main ideas are isolationism and interventionism.
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States and was president from 1913 to 1921, which means he was the president throughout World War 1. The Heritage Foundation describes Wilson’s foreign policy by saying: “Wilson’s foreign policy arose from a set of beliefs that were widely shared among Progressives at the time and continue to exert influence on both the Right and Left today.” The article continued later with: “Heirs to the Progressives tend to emphasize that the primary, if not exclusive, purpose of the use of force abroad should be to promote the freedom and welfare of other peoples (Heritage Foundation).” Wilson’s use of interventionism is what many of politicians and citizens desire even ninety years after it was used. When the word interventionist is used one tends to think of the policy Wilson emphasized. The ideology of interventionism is very simple; a foreign policy in which one country’s government intervenes in other countries’ affairs. The military is used more openly in this strategy, meaning that troop deployment and force is spread through more than one country. History proved that interventionism was, and still can be, an effective strategy to use in specific instances. The opposing viewpoint (isolationism) has been proved ineffective at times in history because interventionism was needed its place. There are two examples that demonstrate why the United States should adopt an interventionist policy in
After World War 1 and before the second war, the United States had secluded itself from many countries because of the devastation. The predominant policy used was obviously isolationism, but in retrospect it was arguably the wrong choice. The First World War was devastating to the United States, as well as the rest of the global community. This devastation caused a change in the government that shifted the United States towards a predominantly isolationist country. This foreign policy shift was viewed as a necessity because of the tragedies the country had suffered. While we were rebuilding and focusing our time, effort, and money on our country as a whole, there was another tragedy developing around the globe: World War 2. It is widely known that the United States’ involvement in WW2 began after the Pearl Harbor attacks. This delay of involvement arguably cost millions of innocent foreign lives. The Holocaust was occurring during the lack of U.S. intervention. This calamity took the lives of millions innocent Jewish people, as well as others. If the United States involved itself earlier than post Pearl Harbor, there could have been a significant amount of lives saved. . Military involvement is specifically what would have preserved the lives of innocents. The deployment of troops is not to be taken lightly, especially into warzones. Few scenarios warrant a deployment of troops into foreign countries. Two examples of when troop deployment is an