The Great Dparture

The Great Departure illustrates the United States evolution from a traditional isolationist Nation to an interventionist nation. Daniel Smith presents the factors that influenced the United States to enter the war and conveying the mindset of American leaders and the issues they faced pertaining to the war. WW I dragged the U.S. out of its isolationist shell and placed the U.S. at the forefront of international politics. Propaganda was a tool used by …

…effective diplomatic leader had he been without the aid of his advisors Colonel House and particularly Robert Lansing. President Wilson was an ideologist and these two advisors saw things in more practical terms. An example of this would be Lansing’s prediction that the Bolshevik Revolution would end up being as bloody as the French Revolution was, while President Wilson felt the people of Russia were a Democratic people and would return to a democracy.