Question

to ban loans and embargoes have been to give realistic expression to the isolation that the people and their president believed they enjoyed. but it would have closed off the wealth of unlimited orders, and americans did not wish to suffer for their neutrality. rather they hoped to make a good thing of it. with these two economic measures taken before the war was three months old, the fact, if not the illusion, of isolation was dead. —“how we entered world war i,” barbara tuchman. how does the cause - and - effect structure support the authors viewpoint that the united states has a false sense of isolation? it compares domestic trade and foreign trade. it shows how the illusion of isolation was broken.

Explanation:

The text discusses how economic measures (cause) led to the end of the illusion of isolation (effect), showing that the US's sense of isolation was false.

Answer:

It shows how the illusion of isolation was broken.