-Harry S. Truman
-March 12, 1947
-U.S support greece and turkey with economic and military aid... etc.
-Prevent falling into the soviet sphere
Containment Policy
- two approches, military and economic
-Diplomatic strategies
-Stall the spread of communism
-Responce to moves made by the soviet union
Bay of Pigs Invasion
-Unsuccesful
-attempt to try to overthrow cuban government
-April 1961
-Playa Giron, the mouth of the bay
U.S Foreign Policy with regards to Korea & Vietnam
-Containment policy
-countries affected by communism
-Truman Doctrine
Cold War Development
-1947-1991
-political conflict
-military tension
-competition between the soviet union and its satelite states
War Powers act
-involved for a long time
-before declaring war
-Permission from congress of declaring war
WWII Foreign Policy vs. Post WWII Foreign Policy
-WWII
-win the war
-Control communism
-aid countries affected with communism
Limited War
Limited War
-Dont use all they have
-Problem
Examples of Containment In Europe
-Us wanted to prevent communism
Main Points of the Division of Germany
-Berlin was in the middle of communist East Germany
Braidenburg Gate was the main passage way from East Germany to West Germany
Douglass MacArthur Dismissal
Douglass MacArthur Dismissal
-Not on the presisdents side
-Did not listen to him
-Made comments towards the president
Korean War Similarities with Persian Gulf War:
-North Korea inavded South Korea
-US fought other countries battles for them
Nuclear Ban Test
-Countries that had weapons agreed to not test them
-Signed treaty
-US still were testing the weapons
Peace Corps
Peace Corps
-Schools
-countries in need
-A way out
End of Cold War
End of Cold War
-Fall of berline wall
Nixon's Detente:
-Easing relations between the soviet union and the US
-1970's
-middle of Cold war
-Detente was known in Russian
