Farewell Address by Washington--this address urged the nation to avoid alliances and getting involved in affairs not our own. This set the tone for isolationism.
Monroe Doctrine--this foreign policy stated the US would protect the Western Hemisphere from European involvement and implied the US would stay out of European affairs.
The Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations would involve the US in world affairs and bring European issues to the doorstep of the US.
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The age of exploration fostered the ideology and policies practiced by Western European countries of extending their rules over foreign nations using violence and military intervention to gain political and economic control over the foreign nations' resources which became normal worldwide.
Western empires have usually pretended to advocate for democracy, freedom and/or equality but cynically contradicting themselves by depriving their colonized peoples from those, overthrowing their governments and setting up instead <em>puppet leaders</em> easily manipuated by the empire.
They basically pronounce rules for others but they do not have the intend to follow themselves
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