How did NATO represent a historic change in American foreign policy?

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Sim W.
Feb 28, 2017

NATO put an end to the Isolationist stance that had prevailed before WWII and before 1897.

Explanation:

NATO was created as a response to the Warsaw Pact.It was meant to be a coalition of capitalist countries willing to resist communism.

It introduced an internationalist perspective in U.S foreign policy. It was a complete rupture with the previous Isolationist values still embodied in the fifities by Robert Taft, the latter emphasized the fact that the USA should withdraw from NATO.

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