POLS 368 Lecture Notes - Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, American Exceptionalism

• School: U of S
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 368
• Professor: Martin Gaal

Document Summary

It may be the worst in the sense that it"s true of every ideology. The ideology varies widely in stalinist russia, etc. Meant to refer to some of the huge swings from one extreme to another in. Extremes that can be seen in the ideology of woodrow wilson, who went from one being non-interventionalist to almost being solitary confinement - like. Wilson was prepared to abandon some lofty principals. Many other presidents were crusaders wanting to promote democracy, freedom, justice even by force of arms if necessary. Despite the proclamation of lofty principals in the founding of the united. More of a promotion of the national interest. The united states, from its earliest times, had aspiring imperial goals. Expanded to the west and south at the expense of indian tribes. It also expanded territory through land from russia (alaska purchase). It also benefitted from the mexican war, which led to texas becoming independent and then returning to the united states.