Question: the us pursued a policy of isolationism after

title: United States non-interventionism
text: The economic depression that ensued after the Crash of 1929 , also continued to abet non-intervention . The attention of the country focused mostly on addressing the problems of the national economy . The rise of aggressive expansionism policies by Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan led to conflicts such as the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and the Japanese invasion of Manchuria . These events led to ineffectual condemnations by the League of Nations . Official American response was muted . America also did not take sides in the brutal Spanish Civil War .