U.S. foreign policy shifted away from "isolationism" to international involvement, since the US started to steer away from Washington's idea that it should remain as detached from foreign issues as possible.
The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. Over 4,000 of the 15,000 cherokee's died.
President Taft's use of "Dollar Diplomacy" in Nicaragua and China showed that American foreign policy was mainly a means of promoting the United States' commercial interest and economic power abroad. Through the "Dollar Diplomacy", policy loans were guaranteed to strategically important foreign countries such as Nicaragua and China.
<span><span>The wars that the ancient
Greeks fought against the Persians, who were seen as savages or
barbarians by Greek culture, were also called Wars of Freedom.</span> <span>These
wars were supported, according to the Greek belief, by the Gods, who
were also Gods of Liberty, and this formed a link between Greek politics
and their religion.</span> <span>The Greeks, after the Persian Wars, or
Wars of Freedom, were strongly related to Zeus and Artemis, for they
protected the Greek Freedom, called Eleutheria, or the personification
of freedom.</span> <span>Being the ancient Greece where the
first experiment of human freedom was made, the mixture of religion and
politics around Freedom, was a very important element in the culture of
ancient Greece.</span></span>
There were several differences that separated the Soviet Union and the US after World War II.
1) The US had a democratic political system while the Soviet Union used a communist system- The communist system revolves around the government having significant control over the media, economy, and other facets of society. On the other hand, a democratic system gives people the power to pick their representatives.
2) The US favored capitalism while the Soviet Union favored a command economy. - The command economy resulted in the Soviet Union's central government telling businesses what they can and cannot produce. America's capitalist system allows competition between businesses and little government interference decide the direction of the US economy.