America's affinity for war abroad deflects from its woes at home

military industrial complex

State of Union Address

from neutrality to isolationism

Presidential Elections

Monroe Doctrine

Non-colonization

non-intervention

non-interference

From expansionism to imperialism

social Darwinism

Manifest Destiny

Isolationism and internationalism

Cold War-Era

Truman Doctrine

Pentagon

Marshall plan

McCarthyism

Post-war era

New interventionism

Four Freedoms and proposal for the United Nations