What are the American Cold War policies and practices in the late 40's to mid 50's?
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The main American Cold War policy from that period was known as containment and was the brainchild of George Kennan. It's main doctrine was set out in a famous artcile published in Foreign Affairs called "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" by "x" who was later revealed to be Kennan. It argued that the Soviets were intent on expanding their influence and that the best policy the Americans could pursue was a strategic long term policy on countering their expansionist tendencies
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The war in Korea. Today 50 years later Korea is still a country divided and the Communist North is the largest threat to nuclear war in the world today.\nThe war in Vietnam. Before the war only North Vietnam was Communist. Today 40 years later all of Vietnam is under Communist rule.\n(For those that say these were not wars but only police actions, tell that to the tens of thousands of troops that died there)\nAlthough you didn't ask the next war the USA will lose is the war in Iraq.
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The Truman Doctrine was the main response of the United States toward the aggression by the Soviet Union in Europe and Middle East illustrated through Communist Movements in Iran, Turkey and Greece, it acteally became the major American Foreign Policy.  We believe it was the first of the succession of the containment moves by the US followed by the economic containment (The Marshall Plan), the military containment (The NATO).  Ever since then the US has send money, equipment and even military force to countries that were threatened by the communist regimes to strengthen their power of resisting the spread of communism.  That policy led the US involved with Greek Civil War (1946-1949), Korean War (1950-1953) and Vietnam War (1957-1975).....etc.
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After world war 2 (1945) to 1990 the USSR and USA governments     d each other and raced to be the best superpower. It wasn't a war as such. They gave each other the cold shoulder, so to speak. Hence the term. \n\nSome people claim they had proxy wars. They would have police actions in a third country supposedly to support the third country - but some people would argue this was their way of having a war with each other without admitting to having a war with each other. It was done this way (the argument goes) because the USSR and USA could never really have a war since they would blow us all to kingdom come.
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Really just about every country on earth was involved in the Cold war. Either you were pro Soviet or pro West. Most countries were pro West unless they were part of the Soviet bloc or traded oil and weapons with the Soviets. Kind of like the war on terrorism. You are for us or against us.
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Yeah I can. I've studied American Foreign Policy. When is it due? How long is it? Do you need references?
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Yes.  The US adopted a "policy of containment" in the 1950's that became the basis of America's Cold War Strategy.  It was published in Foreign Policy magazine by a young writer, George Foster Kennan.   The policy of containment is also known as an "international embargo" which prevents other countries from trading with that country, thereby depressing the economy of a country.  The two-pronged strategy was quite public.\n\nAside from the Embargo, here's the second part:\n\nThe US would build dangerous weapons and a formidable military and then threaten certain countries it it -- USSR, N. Korea, Cuba and others-- to the point that those countries would spend all of it's money to do the same thing and threaten the US back.\n\nKennan knew that smaller countries with not a lot of capital would eventually fall if they spent so much money on weapons.  They knew the people would starve, then become angry and rebel against those governments.  \n\nIt worked like a charm for decades.  Everyone was kept at bay, but a lot of destruction and deaths happened because of this policy.\n\nA year before he died, George Foster Kennan said he regretted the day he published the article after seeing what the US had inflicted upon the world.\n\nNow that George Bush has been in power, he changed the strategy and became open about aggression.  He used 9/11 to openly attack 2 nations-- one that probably was not involved in 9/11 and another everyone knows for sure was not involved.\n\nAfghanistan for years could not be utilized by Bush's oil companies to build a pipeline to the other "stan" countries that were oil rich-- because of an international embargo against the Taliban leaders after the war that USSR lost.  (The US had given the Taliban the weapons)\n\nIraq was drenched in oil but also had an international embargo placed against it by George Bush's father.  So the Bush cabal decided that the only way to get around it was to commit wars and place in 2 new governments to be able to say -- Hey, Lookie, there's no need for embargos anymore!\n\nThe whole thing was a Stupid Ruse against the world and so it didn't work. The world was wise to it and turned its back on the US and a kind of "policy of containment" began to work AGAINST the US as the world found other ways to operate without the US. The US was spending too much money on the military, weapons, war and killing, and became for the first time, a Hated US government,. not much different from Israel.  \n\nAlso, hundreds of thousands of people in those two countries died, including the poor US soldiers, many of whom joined because they had no other options in America.  The curious part there is the US government didn't seem to care.\n\nNow the NEW US government will reconsider all of these faulty decisions and to get the country out of these problems, the Senators and leaders need to hear from people like you-- no matter your age-- who are asking questions.  This is a new "Consensus" government that wants to include the People.  Get involved by writing and going to your town meetings
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This is a cheap way to get somebody to do your homework for you but I will try:\n\nPresidential leadership in the 21st century was difficult, especially in terms of national security.  The century started with World War I.  This war created a foreign policy problem that at the time seemed like an excellent solution - isolationism.  It also created political unrest in Europe that led to Fascism and Communism.\n\nThe United States did not immediately enter World War II, and an attack on U.S. soil at Pearl Harbor became the ultimate issue of national security for President Roosevelt.  The war was won, and the Fascists were never again a problem.\n\nThen the Communists in the Soviet Union began their Cold War with the United States.  Until 1992, this threat to national security would continue to be at the forefront of the country's foreign relations problems.  The Soviet Union and Communism in general would account for the U.S. entering two more wars, Korea and Vietnam.  These wars were fought under the policy set forth by the Truman Doctrine.  This was a policy of containment of Communism.\n\nIn 1962, under Kennedy, the Soviet Union seemed to be preparing for its first attack on the U.S.  In this matter of national security, Kennedy was able to combine diplomacy with compromise and an blockade to stop weapon building in Cuba.  This was the closest people say the U.S. ever got to a nuclear war.\n\nIn 1992, the Soviet Union finally collapsed, but that did not end the United States trouble with national security.  The Gulf War, and other wars where the U.S. helped Israel defend attack, had caused disgruntled Arab nations that could not win a typical war to result to the guerilla tactics of terrorism.  This war, which extremist Muslims call the Jihad, is still the national security problem today.\n\nOK, so it isn't everything you need for a paper and some of the stuff is out of order (or at least the order I would put it in) and it isn't proofread, but can I have the 10 points anyway?
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None of the above, the tensions were not eased until the soviet union started breaking down.  They did get a little better in the 70's than they were in the 50's but only by degrees.
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Sites of conflict weren't limited to Cuba and Afghanistan--there were ideological conflicts throughout the world at the time. Many countries in South America, Asia, etc. Though the US and USSR didn't ever really have direct contact, the cold war was very real though many people at the time didn't want to recognize that it actually was a war. \n\nThe USSR was actively promoting Communism throughout the world to extend their reach. Luckily Reagan had the insight to know that just because they weren't attacking us--the spread of Communism would be just as good as if they were attacking us. Reagan countered the USSR's pursuits and won. I think the USSR would still exist today if Reagan hadn't actively countered them and given the US "peace through strength". Because he refused to play Russia's game, they were forced into trying to keep up with the US's military and nuclear buildup which eventually lead them to an economic crisis--forcing them to snap out of their ploys of world domination.
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Foreign Policy--\nToughen sanctions on NKorea until they stop counterfeiting and talking about nukes.\nGradually move US troops to Iran.\nGive Iraq 3 months.  Promise rebuilding aid if they comply.  Withhold aid if they don't.\n\nSocial Policy--\nReform public education.  Break up the NEA.  End tenure.  Take all origin theory OUT.  Expel children whose parents won't make them follow the rules.   Teach responsibility with rights.\n\nMake Social Security need based now.  As it should have been 20 years ago.\n\nTie corporate tax cuts to employee incentives (medical, childcare, etc.)\n\nSanctions on Mexico, tied with funds, to make them fix their economic problems and to make them stay home.\n\nLimit welfare recipients to two children (males and females), after that, sterilization (males and females).  Welfare until the youngest child is in kindergarten.  Stop rewarding unmarried mothers--make welfare independent of marital status.\n\nSafety nets for the working poor--medicaid, childcare.  So the welfare parents will choose to work.
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usa maybe in the next  roughly 40, 50 years?
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http://www.50states.com/us.htm
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This smells like a research paper you should be doing your own research for.  I'll just say the foreign policy of the 1950's was totally dominated by worldwide struggle with the USSR for allies and hegemony.  Everything else was secondary.  On top of the perpetual war footing and a major shooting war in Korea there was the threat of nuclear holocaust.  And the American imagination has latched onto the idea that this decade was innocent and carefree, a Golden Age that makes our own times dark and frightening in comparison.  This grotesque glorification of the past plays right into the hands of the current regime, which manipulates fear to stay in power and strip away our constitutional rights.
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B... eventually. US took over most of Britain's mid-east role, France lost out in Vietnam and Algeria, and so on and so on.\n\nAnd the Warsaw Pact was between the USSR and Eastern European States from 1955 to 1991. Duh
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Are you referring to the 'New Deal'. \n\nThe New Deal was a wonderful set of policies that we still use today. It is what brought the country out of the Great Depression. \n\nIt consist of everything from social security benefits to taxes on luxury items. Try a few searches on the New Deal and you can learn a lot about our history and why we have some of the things we have today.
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very unstable.\n\nUS CIA intervention in the 50s and 60s.\n\nlots of civil war.