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What event caused many americans to move away from isolationism and toward support for american involvement in world war i?

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Answer: Pearl Harbor

Explanation: News of the attack reached Washington, D.C., and the following day, President Roosevelt declared that it was "a day which will live in infamy" and asked Congress for a declaration of war on Japan. The outrage of U.S. citizens following the attack meant the end isolationism in the country.

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