- Published: January 19, 2022
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A History of the United s The United built a National Security by; Developing Atomic Weapons- the US developed several different nuclear weapons but Soviets followed the same strategies therefore ending the US monopoly on the nuclear weapons.
Beefing up its conventional military power by; forming the a Council of National Security to advise the president; made permanent women’s military branches; increased expenditures on defense
Joining its first peacetime military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); pledging to involve them in war if one of its allies was attacked (James et al 15).
Strengthening Friendly Countries by approving $1 billion of military aid to its NATO allies, and the government assisting nations in other parts of the world economically.
Improving espionage capabilities; creating the Central Intelligence Agency to be gathering intelligence and performing sabotage, propaganda, and other anti-Communist activities that would violate US citizens’ rights.
The government intensifying propaganda efforts to win hearts and minds throughout the world.
Effects of superpower rivalry on U. S. foreign policy;
Chinese Civil War; as the communists led by Mao Zedong fought the corrupt and incompetent official Nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek and the US withdrew its financial aid to the Nationalists.
By 1948, US policy had shifted from decentralizing Japan’s economy to focus on reindustrializing it.
President Truman’s Fair Deal program and why the Fair Deal did not completely succeed;
Truman’s approved key proposal was “ full-employment legislation” which was also watered down since; Inflation, not unemployment, turned out to be the most severe problem in the early postwar years; Truman failed to turn his election victory into success for his Fair Deal agenda; His civil rights measures and proposals were rejected by the congress; Truman blamed political opponents for defeating his Fair Deal. The program also suffered from a wave of anti-Communist hysteria that weakened both left and liberal forces; Republicans who had attacked the New Deal as a plot radical now jumped on revelations of Soviet espionage Cold War setbacks to accuse Democrats of fostering internal subversion.
Fate of US efforts in Korea and war’s influence on 1952’s presidential election;
Eisenhower pledged to end the Korean War, and he made good of his pledge as he left Korea divided at the thirty-eighth parallel, with the North and south separated by 2. 5 mile-wide demilitarized zone; The Truman administration judged the war a success for containment as the United States had supported its promise in aiding the resisting communism countries; The war had an enormous effect on defense policy and spending; the National Security Council Report, NSC 68, warned that the survival of the nation required military buildup, steered a huge increase in defense spending and a tripling of the armed forces; The war also convinced the Truman administration to expand its role in Asia by increasing help to the French (James et al 23).
The general dissatisfaction with Truman’s involvement in the war gave Republicans a decided edge in the 1952’s election. Truman decided not to run for reelection. Voters enumerated their confidence in Eisenhower’s ability to end the war and this gave him a 55 percent win of the popular vote.
Works cited
James L. Roark, Michael P. Johnson, Patricia Cline Cohen, Sarah Stage and Susan M. Hartmann; The American
Promise: A History of the United States. Fifth Edition. New York: Bedford St Martin.