> Were they? I mean before the 50's you have the 40's the 40's are notable because of WW2, prior to that America was pretty isolationist. Were we? Then how did

> Were they? I mean before the 50's you have the 40's the 40's are notable because of WW2, prior to that America was pretty isolationist. Were we? Then how did we expand from 13 states to 50? What were the wars with mexico, spain, china, etc about? How does that explain commodore perry and his black ships in japan? Did he get lost? We had colonies from china to japan to africa to the caribbean before ww2. The isolationist propaganda is what we are taught in school. But like most history/propaganda, if you just dig a little bit deeper, it's all nonsense. We were the greatest expansionist force in the world in the 19th and 20th century.