How WWII ended the great depression

Washington hoped would keep the United States out of another European war

Although U .S . attention was focused inward in the 1920s and 1930s , the reality was that the country was one of the most powerful nations in the world . Since the Monroe Doctrine , the United States had established its primacy over Latin America (Harrel , 2005

.73 . The United States also had a dominant place in Asia and the Pacific as early as the turn of the century , and subsequent policies ensured that it would retain that position . The United States

revoked the conditions of isolation and had assumed participation to international issues after war , which eventually initiated the economical decline due to the evident attention diversion

In addition , building on the precedent set by Wilson , U .S . global dominance was not just military and economic but was political and ideological as well (Harrel , 2005

.73 . The ideals espoused earlier by Wilson guided U .S . foreign policy (Saunders , 2001

.382 ) Even subsequent administrations , while more pragmatic than idealistic , pursued a foreign policy that was idealist in nature , tied to the desire to negotiate agreements and to bring countries together to find ways to avoid war as a way of settling their differences , rather than through armed conflict (Harrel , 2005

.73 . When he was elected president in 1920 , Warren Harding inherited a country disillusioned by world war and whose attention was focused inward . Isolationism guided foreign policy , albeit with U .S . involvement externally when it was perceived to be in the national interest (Harrel , 2005

.75 . The main priority of the Harding administration was economics and commerce , which continued under Calvin Coolidge (Saunders , 2001

.382 . The increase in income coupled with a drop in prices for many luxury items meant that Americans were buying products...