Diplomacy is the ability to handle conflicting affairs between different nations and without any introduction of hostile environments. For a very long time, diplomacy has been the main ingredient in settling policies. United States diplomacy has been the most easily accessible survey ever conducted and it is also widespread. It played a big role when America was struggling with England during the independence for it lay among the best-known tactics of settling disputes. In 1776 when independence was declared, Americans needed a powerful collaborator during the war and they decided to go for England’s long-time enemy, France to help them launch the attacks.
A continental congress picked out one person and sent him to France as an undercover agent from where he was required to help the Americans get reinforcement. The first diplomat to succeed in getting support from France was Benjamin Franklin, whose diplomatic savoir-faire led to the contract of coalition with France in the year 1778; these brought a lot of changes during the war and in the bigger picture it helped in the establishment of sovereignty and the diplomatic nation at large. By the 20th century, the United States had become a superpower all over the world and even when the world war started it continued doing business with other nations, making it the main target of Germany after it was forced to be part of the war by fighting back to defend itself. The president who was in power (Franklin D. Roosevelt) said, “We are going to win this war and we are going to win the peace that follows.” He traveled all over the world to meet those who acted as catalysts to the war in person to negotiate for peace.
World War 2 was the most sadistic and largest equipped clash in the times gone by of human beings. The confrontation was fought for many different aims since two powerful alliances were struggling globally for the same reason and before it was over, more than sixty million people had lost their lives, property, and families. In the year 1945 when the United States dropped two nuclear bombs to attack Japan, the world on the record entered a nuclear epoch that had never been experienced in their history. Ushering in the famous World War 2 was helped by several actions like Manchuria being infested by Japan and most of all Adolf Hitler heading Germany which later led him to threaten other European countries. Adolf Hitler was well known for his heartless dealings that left many in fear. Havoc was wreaked throughout the world by the great depression in the year 1929. The strategic planning after World War 1 by the Americans was to the highest degree broken in by a fashionable reaction to the war. In presumption, the United States flotilla would win the war and its most important position was to come to blows with the delaying battle until the United States navy arrived. It was needed in two oceans, more than a strong army. The red plan came into being later together with the high potential of war with Great Britain. Panama Canal and the western hemisphere needed to be safeguarded. The United States’ interests in economics and politics were alarmed by the moves that the Japanese made after entering into association with Germany and Italy.
Many proceedings that would in the long run lead to World War 2 started happening in Europe, many Americans took ways depending on their own choices without the pressure that showed their unwillingness of getting involved. The events that happened during the World War 1 had fed into America’s accepted aspiration to isolationism and the passageway of refusal to take sides acts clearly reflected it. Events were happening in Europe and Asia while America was self-indulging in isolationism and nonaligned status, these events included; Mussolini conquering Ethiopia, Japan moving towards fascism, Francisco Franco leading to revolution in Spain, the great depression worldwide and Rhineland being taken by Germany. Physical attack on Pearl Harbor is what distorted America into a nation enthusiastically at war and Roosevelt Franklin who was then the president of the united states of America made announcements that the United States would no longer get involved in any business with Japan as it needed items like iron and gasoline for use at war with China. Trading with Japan would have stipulated that it was supporting the war and was against china.
The very devastating time in the American history was the great depressions (1920’s) and in the American civilization it was a changing point that showed the general public of the United States many things they had not seen before. Apart from all the issues that the great depression brought, changes towards the democratic system were also brought. Kennan wrote a long telegram as an answer back to the United States funds unit as he knew what was happening. The long telegram incorporated many things. Some of its contents were, “Dept will bear with me if I submit in answer to these question five parts…I apologize in advance for this burdening of telegraphic channel” (Richard c. Holbrooke 35). He explained that big business with soviet communism was the supreme duty their international family members had ever faced and in all probability the greatest it would ever have faced, in the two sections that came he imagined some perceptions that became the establishment of America’s cold war guiding principle and according to him, the soviet union did not see the likelihood of diplomatic coexistence with the capital world in long-standing. Kennan said it was its main aim ever-present to move forward the Marxist raison d’ĂŞtre and that the menace to the ideals of communalism was entrepreneurship. In section five of the same telegram, he explained soviet Achilles’ heels and anticipated the United States strategy. He also added that the misinformation by the soviets was negative and destructive and that they were weak making them open to unsteadiness on the inside. He advocated for unrestricted edification, putting forward a good picture of the world that the United States would have liked to see and solutions to problems in the United States society
In conclusion, the United States of America legislative body went through a series of neutrality acts because the United States had a strong sensation of being neutral and being isolated at that time. It also feared that the country would end up being involved in the horrifying events that were going on in Europe.
Works cited
Clark M. Clifford and Richard C. Holbrooke, “Counsel to the President: A Memoir.” New York: Random House, 2011.