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The Great Departure. Daniel Smith's, The Great Departure illustrates very
well the United State's evolution from a traditionally ...
The Great Departure. Daniel Smith's, The Great Departure illustrates very
well the United State's evolution from a traditionally ...
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Daniel Smith's, The Great Departure illustrates very well
the United State's evolution from a traditionally isolationist
nation to an interventionist nation. WWI literally dragged the
U.S. out of its isolationist shell and placed the U.S. at the
forefront of international politics. The pressure to join WWI
was resisted greatly by the Wilson administration and the
country as a whole. Smith does an excellent job at
presenting the factors that influenced the U.S. to enter the
war and at conveying the mind set of American leaders
during this time and the issues they faced pertaining to the
war.
The author illustrates the factors of interest or the eventual
causes involvement in WWI in chapters II, III, IV. He offers
good points to the issues and now I would like to discuss
some of the issues he has mentioned.
Propaganda was a tool used by Germany and the allies to
influence the U.S., whether that propaganda was used to
keep the U.S. out of the war or to try and draw the U.S.
into the war makes no real difference. The extent of
propaganda in the U.S. is shown by the Dr. Albert's
briefcase affair and the German execution of Nurse Edith
Cavell and other atrocities of war carried out by either side.
The author, while recognizing the importance of these
propaganda stories and the heterogeneous culture of the
U.S., underestimates the actual impact on public sentiment it
actually had I feel. The U.S., "the great melting pot" had an
enormous immigrant population, to underestimate the effect
of propaganda on a population that had close personal ties
to their...
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