In sum, the second decade of the 20th century saw the United States struggle with the responsibilities, which foreign investments bring. A pattern of behavior was rising. In spite of Commitment to neutrality, the United States interests were forcing involvement where they never had before. President Woodrow Wilson wanted to keep the United States out of World War 1 in order to achieve the country’s foreign policy objectives. He wanted to insure that no country …showed first 75 words of 960 total…

…showed last 75 words of 960 total…situation brought about termination of United States neutrality and, the United States could never again expect to sustain impartial neutrality where her interests were involved. In the words of Woodrow Wilson, “America reached her age of majority as a world power.” Even in the wake of The Hague peace conferences codification of neutral impartiality as the best legal policy to inhibit the spread of war, impartiality for the United States eventually proved impractical and untenable.