From the time of the Spanish-American War to the start of the Cold War, the United States went from isolated relating to increased global involvement due to utopian thinking, 2 business expansion, and 3 foreign policy changes. The consequences on American society of this greater involvement were America's development into an "international police power." Edward Bellamy's book, Looking Backward, was a projection of American thinking of that era that added to the widely held belief of millenarianism. This book focused primarily on a fictional future utopia that many Americans wanted to believe in and develop. In this fictional story “…all now benefit from the most favorable physical living conditions; the young are carefully fed and carefully cared for; the work that is required of all is limited to the period of greatest bodily vigor…” This paints a picture that many wish to see come true, a picture that many people would act upon and see to it that it expands to encompass other spheres of life. influence and reach all over the world. Bellamy himself believed that America could influence the world far enough to write about it in his book believing that his new system of government would bring attention to America and that other countries would want to replicate this effective new system. In a way, he was right: he was able to influence many Americans to look toward a better future, and this book even gave birth to many movements such as "Mr. Edward Bellamy, a novelist by profession, is the recognized father of nationalist clubs,” this book gave Americans hope and an overall goal to accomplish, that of creating a perfect society. This idea of ​​hope and equality continued over the years until Woodrow Wilson proposed the...... middle of paper...... and themselves as they see fit . Explain to the American people that communism now poses a threat. With the Axis defeated, it is time to turn their attention to the threat to freedom. This new threat is beginning to exert continuing influence on other areas of American involvement, such as in the Korean conflict. The United States helped the Republic of Korea "...promote world peace and the general welfare." It became an integral part of police power, from its origins with Theodore Roosevelt, and consolidated its role after World War II. With the Gulf War, one of the reasons the United States intervened was to stop Saddam Hussein's atrocities against the nation of Kuwait. This example from the Gulf War shows that the principles of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency and Harry Truman's presidency continue to influence America's foreign policy to some extent today...