Intervention or Independence with Foreign Policy?

<Tab/>In his farewell address, former president George Washington advised his fellow Americans to avoid foreign entanglements. Washington realized that America was still a new and weak country, and that it would take time to become bigger and stronger. To have involved America in foreign conflicts would have put the nation in jeopardy of losing its independence. Americans followed the president's advice for the next 100 years. By 1900, business was prospering; the …

…powerful nation in the world. This is mostly due to having foreign allies in Europe and other continents in the world. Although, many people think that the United States decision to back away from Europe after World War I may have effected World War II in the fact that it may have never happened, because it wouldn't have given people such as Hitler a chance to gain power, thus stopping W.W.II from happening.