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		mAEStro-paNDa on June 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Putin’s Media Struggle to Deal with HBO’s Chernoby... >a pacifist nation I think you mean isolationist.

jcranmer on June 7, 2019 [–]

It wasn't isolationist: the US was a big player in the naval disarmament treaties in the 1920s and early 1930s.

The US in the inter-war period had a very strong pacifist movement, to the point that one member of Congress was unable to vote for the declaration of war on Japan, even after Pearl Harbor.

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