The trends we have seen in previous chapters--toward industrialization, urbanization, and expansion to gain control of lands and resources--were characteristic of Europe as well as the United States. Chapter 21 has already taken note of the imperial designs of European nations, and how these designs brought them into conflict with one another and with the United States in Asia and Latin America. The present chapter traces the emergence of the United States as a world power by examining progressive diplomacy in the opening decades of the twentieth century. As the old order of alliances and empires proved unable to mediate the conflicts arising out of imperialism and international rivalry, the United States was drawn into the First World War. In its aftermath, Woodrow Wilson tried to establish a new world order based on international cooperation. Narrow nationalism, at home and abroad, prevailed instead. Not for another twenty years would this new internationalism receive another chance.