Current Events and U.S. Diplomacy
1. Define doctrine and identify why a president would want to announce one.
A doctrine is a philosophy, actions, and set of principles particular or adopted by a president or a group in general. It is adopted to guide actions for that particular group or individual. In international relations it is mostly used to explain the foreign policy under a president.
When elected a president differentiate himself by establishing am ideology, a set of policies that will dictate what course of action will be taken at any time with anything that may happen. At that time it was capital for each president to define their doctrine to ensure proper plans of action will in office. With the cold war it was even more critical as they were face with challenging international situations.
The communist soviet was expanding and the West was trying to contain that expansion. The Truman Doctrine (1945- 1953) was all about stopping the soviet and communist expansion wherever necessary.
2. Select one country you wrote about in Assignment 1 and describe the Cold War relationship that existed between it and the U.S. Explicate the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred.
According to the US State Department, The United States appointed its first Consul to Greece in 1837, following Greece’s independence from the Ottoman Empire, and established diplomatic relations with Greece in 1868.
Between 1940 and 1941, Greece faced an attack from Italy and Germany without U.S. intervention. After the German occupation, the Greeks went through a terrible civil war. Those were trouble times during 1944. The guerrilla forces from the communist party KKE, supported by the communists Yugoslavia (Tito), Albania, and Bulgaria was fighting against the government established after controversial elections they had boycotted. Since Britain could no longer afford to aid Greece, they called the US to the rescue.
After World War II,
A doctrine is a philosophy, actions, and set of principles particular or adopted by a president or a group in general. It is adopted to guide actions for that particular group or individual. In international relations it is mostly used to explain the foreign policy under a president.
When elected a president differentiate himself by establishing am ideology, a set of policies that will dictate what course of action will be taken at any time with anything that may happen. At that time it was capital for each president to define their doctrine to ensure proper plans of action will in office. With the cold war it was even more critical as they were face with challenging international situations.
The communist soviet was expanding and the West was trying to contain that expansion. The Truman Doctrine (1945- 1953) was all about stopping the soviet and communist expansion wherever necessary.
2. Select one country you wrote about in Assignment 1 and describe the Cold War relationship that existed between it and the U.S. Explicate the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred.
According to the US State Department, The United States appointed its first Consul to Greece in 1837, following Greece’s independence from the Ottoman Empire, and established diplomatic relations with Greece in 1868.
Between 1940 and 1941, Greece faced an attack from Italy and Germany without U.S. intervention. After the German occupation, the Greeks went through a terrible civil war. Those were trouble times during 1944. The guerrilla forces from the communist party KKE, supported by the communists Yugoslavia (Tito), Albania, and Bulgaria was fighting against the government established after controversial elections they had boycotted. Since Britain could no longer afford to aid Greece, they called the US to the rescue.
After World War II,