What term describes the United States policy of avoiding involvement in other countries' affairs and wars?

• A. Isolationism
• B. Neutrality Acts
• C. Interventionism
• D. Pacifism

Answer: (A)

Isolationism is the United States policy of keeping out of foreign conflicts and avoiding entanglements in other nations’ affairs. It reflects a stance to stay apart from overseas wars and political commitments, focusing on domestic concerns instead. This idea has roots in Washington’s warnings against entangling alliances and shaped later by movements that preferred staying out of international wars, especially in the interwar period. The other terms either refer to tools used to implement neutrality (the Neutrality Acts), or describe a broader stance that supports not fighting but still engaging abroad (interventionism), or a moral philosophy against war altogether (pacifism). So the term that best captures avoiding involvement in others’ affairs and wars is isolationism.