The American Experience: The United States and the World

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This course traces the transformation of the U.S. since World War I from an isolationist power, reluctant to form "entangling alliances" or interfere in international affairs outside the Western Hemisphere to the dominant world power. It will examine how and why this change occurred through U.S. participation in two World Wars and forty years of Cold War and what the consequences of that transformation have been for Americans at home and for world international relations.