Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to US c. Philippines sold to US for $20M Success: Large expansion of US military territory‚ leads to further expansion under Roosevelt and US entering world politics/conflicts Containment/Cold War Historic Background a) Yalta Conference: End of WW2 (1945). FDR‚ Stalin and Churchill meet and decided to divide the world into zones of control and set up an idea of democratic elections in all the freed
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allied against Nazi Germany‚ the two sides differed on how to reconstruct the postwar world even before the end of World War II. Over the following decades‚ the Cold War spread outside Europe to every region of the world‚ as the U.S. sought the "containment" of communism and forged numerous alliances to this end‚ particularly in Western Europe‚ the Middle East‚ and Southeast Asia. There were repeated crises that
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president. For this example‚ Williams is not using sound historical methods to further his arguments‚ eye witness accounts are usually the most unreliable. Gaddis also uses dodgy historical methods to further his arguments. Gaddis claims in regards to containment evolving against the will of the American people “Indeed some post revisionists have suggested that public and congressional opinion moved in this direction before the policymakers did.” Gaddis proceeds to footnote this sentence in his work to give
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COLD WAR The Cold War was the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) during the 46-year period following the World War II’s end‚ but before the end of the Soviet Union. It refers to the time between 1945 and 1991. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COLD WAR At the end of World War II‚ English author and journalist George Orwell used Cold war‚ as a general term‚ in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb"‚ published October 19‚ 1945‚ in the British newspaper Tribune. Contemplating
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Bibliography: John Lewis Gaddis‚ Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (New York‚ 1982); Melvyn P Lefler‚ A Preponderance of Power: National Security‚ the Truman Administration and the Cold War (Stanford‚ 1992). Michael H Hunt‚ Ideology and American
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support for the containment of Communism and the reversal of Communist progress in the Western Hemisphere. The Kennedy Doctrine was essentially an expansion of the foreign policy prerogatives of the previous administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman. The foreign policies of these presidents all revolved around the threat of communism and the means by which the United States would attempt to contain the spread of it. The Truman Doctrine focused on the containment of communism by
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atomic bomb in Nagasaki and Hiroshima Stalin was angry that Truman had not told him at Potsdam about the atom bomb (Trust issue) 1949 USSR developed atomic bomb meant nuclear war‚ could be nuclear destruction‚ series of tense confrontations. Makes people careful and think twice before waging war. Nuclear bomb stopped cold war from getting to a “hot war” The USSR and Eastern Europe – The Iron Curtain End of WW2 the Soviets liberated countries from Nazis Countries were replaced with Soviet communism
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Within just a few years‚ however‚ wartime allies became mortal enemies‚ because of military‚ political‚ economic‚ and ideological differences. The alliance that had formed between the United States and the USSR during World War II was not strong enough to overcome the decades of suspicion and unease between the two super powers. Moreover‚ as both leaders had their own objectives‚ which were often mutually exclusive‚ and neither was willing to compromise.
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Introduction There were many crises of the Cold War which affected the World. Some of the main crises were the Berlin Blockade‚ which forced the Americans to consider attacking the Russians on the ground. The Korean War‚ which brought the USA and the USSR into full battle under the gauze of the UN army and the North Korean Army respectively. Former President of the USA once said “When I was in the White House‚ I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30‚000
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outside of the UN to re order the world. He ended up convincing many that Truman’s “get tough” approach to the soviets was the right one. Containment: The American foreign policy created in 1947 that through economic and technical assistance stopped the spread of communism in threatened countries. It later involved military force as well. The policy of Containment was put to action in the Truman Doctrine‚ The Marshall Plan‚ the Berlin airlift and the formation of NATO. 1. Truman Doctrine (U.S
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