Introduction

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The confrontation of the American reform tradition with the world conflicts in which the United States has been involved is a major theme in modern American history. With regard to the First World War, two questions have attracted particular attention. The first is the part played by the war in the decline of the progressive movement. The second is whether a commitment to domestic reform produced a particular approach to foreign affairs, and if so what the nature of this approach may have been. This latter issue has generated a lively historiographical debate. On the former, however, there has been general agreement that the war weakened the forces of reform in America. This has been conceded even by those who wish to stress the extent to which the progressive impulse persisted through the war and into the 1920s.

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