Answer:
United States foreign policy has changed dramatically from George Washington's day. Promoting freedom and democracy and protecting human rights around the world are central to U.S. foreign policy. The values captured in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in other global and regional commitments are consistent with the values upon which the United States was founded centuries ago.
Step-by-step explanation:
- It was a radical shift in U.S. foreign policy, which promoted a stance of isolationism that would last until World War II. Warren Harding won the 1920 presidential election on the promise of staying out of global affairs, and by arguing that the United States needed normalcy and a focus on internal problems.
- In the years after World War II, the United States was guided generally by containment — the policy of keeping communism from spreading beyond the countries already under its influence. The policy applied to a world divided by the Cold War, a struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War reflected a bipolar world where the overarching objectives included containment of communism, deterring nuclear armageddon by threatening it and building a world of free trade supported by international economic institutions.
- For the next 40 years, American foreign relations changed from wartime diplomacy and struggle to efforts to demonstrate to European sceptics that democracy was a viable form of government. Foreign policy focused both on keeping what America had won and beginning its expansion across the continent.