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InstructionsTHIS JUST IN: You work for a national radio broadcasting company, and it is your job to create the typed broadcast for the evening news, recapping the experiences of Americans from before World War I (WWI) as well as after the war.For your story to be valid and accepted by a wide audience, it must include the home-front experiences of many groups; to help with your story, choose at least three topics below to discuss in your broadcast.§ What changed because of the movement from isolationism to expansionism?§ How did the Roosevelt Corollary change America’s role in the world?§ Assess the relevance of people’s concerns about the war’s impact on the international community.§ Assess the war’s economic impact, including the expansion of factories due to wartime production.§ What domestic and international figures played key roles in the war?§ How is the United States in the post-war era positioned to become a superpower?With any good news story, you must utilize multiple sources. Your story must be a minimum of two pages in length. A minimum of two reputable sources must be used, cited, and referenced, one of which must come from the CSU Online Library. This means you will need to find at least one additional source on your own, and it cannot be the content provided in this course (i.e., unit lessons or U.S. History resource). Inappropriate resources, or failure to use at least one resource available in the CSU Online Library, can lead to deductions. Click		here	to view a resource on evaluating websites to use in your research.Your report must be in essay form, and all citations and references must follow APA format.If you need clarification on any of the grading elements, please contact your professor. CSU librarians are also available should you need assistance with your research for this assignment.

Azra S · Accepted Answer

America, WW1 and the move to Expansionism
If someone told us today that once upon a time, America had “nothing to do with the world” as a policy, we will probably laugh. However, this was exactly the case when America gained independence. Our founding fathers believed the country needed to focus on itself. They believed that this would help the country grow and keep it out of needless problems with other countries. After all, much founding work was to be done in the country to make it strong. Therefore isolationism was the go-to solution as a foreign policy. This policy though, didn’t last long and America gradually drifted towards expansionism taking deep interest in other countries- a policy confirmed with Roosevelt’s corollary.
In order to avoid any unnecessary clash, Washington wanted to keep America on the safe side, especially during the early years after liberation. Thus he adopted the policy of isolationism. Isolationism meant that America should keep to itself and must not interfere in other countries’ problems. This policy was reinforced by the Monroe doctrine. So for several years after America became a free country, it refrained from interfering into the affairs of other countries.
This changed in the second half of the 19th century. From roughly 1850 to 1916 America’s foreign policy gradually underwent a drastic change from isolationism to expansionism. America wanted to trade with other countries and this wasn’t restricted to trade, it wanted to gain control of other countries (Crothers, 2011). In the pursuit of this interest,

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