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brought to you by isolationism Preferred strategy of middle children

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on family vacations All right here's The excerpt in the

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viewing pen situation notifying government training too public there's a

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letter here all right And the question the sentiment expressed

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above most radically lost public support after which of the

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following events and here your pencil answer creation All right

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we know from the date on this excerpt that the

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u s was in major isolationist mode at the time

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preferring to remain on the sidelines of any international conflict

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rather than get involved So we need to figure out

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which answer best describes why the public would have suddenly

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stopped supporting this foreign policy principle Would these sentiments have

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radically lost public support after a the second great migration

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the second great migration refers to the internal movement of

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african americans in the u s not foreign policies that

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don't make anything for the isolationist zeal have dampened following

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see the great depression Well because the great depression crippled

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the us economy people believe that america should remain isolationist

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in order to get back on its economic feet that

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knocks out c too with the public have turned on

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isolationism after d the treaty of versailles Well actually the

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treaty of versailles was one of the peace treaties to

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end world war ii And after such a horrible international

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conflict people were ready to leave it all alone and

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get back to their own thing So it's not d

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either which means public support for isolationism would have eroded

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after b the attack on pearl harbor america's illusion of

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safety shattered with the japanese attack on pearl harbor And

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rather than remain uninvolved in world war i two americans

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decided that they would join the fight against the axis

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powers So b is the right answer In fact the

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american shift from isolationism teo interventionism actually helped turn the

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tide in favor of the allied forces Who needs the

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