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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The Cold War was a conflict in international politics that arose between the countries of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Especially the United States and the Soviet Union in the period from the end of the Second World War in 1945 until the Soviet Union collapse in 1991. The cold war was a fight between American capitalism on one side against Soviet planned economy. The two sides warring ideologies fought each other on many areas such as militarily‚ technology‚ politics‚ economy and culturally. Especially
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outlook of communism‚ the USSR began a spirited campaign to exert its influence over other nations. On the other hand‚ America took a more defensive stance by enacting a policy of containment‚ trying to stop communism’s spread to other countries. With the sharp‚ bitter divide between capitalism and communism‚ both superpowers engaged in frequent proxy wars. For example‚ in Korea‚ people were split between whether to adopt communism or capitalism. The north‚ supported by the USSR‚ attempted to capture
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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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Currently‚ there are several hundred foreign military bases globally‚ most of them owned by the United States. These foreign military bases arose after the allied victory in the world wars and during the Cold War. Each of these military base was put in place either with a specific security goal or for overall regional stability. While some of these bases were acquired through force‚ such as the ones in Germany‚ Italy‚ and Japan‚ others were gained in support of allies‚ such as the ones in England
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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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