What were the goals of the United States after WWII?
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To contain communism.  That is how we got involved in the Korean and Vietmanese wars.  President Truman also got the civil rights movement going after WWII.  Maintaining our status as a superpower and stopping Russia was our primary concerns.
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In a sense it never went away, it only expanded to a global level.  The goal of most (if not all) nations is to increase their own relative power and influence on the international scale, if possible to the exclusion of others.  The Monroe doctrine just codified this  by saying that America is "the boss" of the western hemisphere, however since WW2 our government has maintained a global military presence and become "the boss" of most of western civilization.
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Military will still be America.  Technology would be Japan and education will be somewhere in Europe.\n\nMy reasoning?  Just what I think.
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Unofficially, the US was involved with WWII from the beginning, by sending supplies to the Allies.\nOfficially, in 1941.
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The US is a strong, prosperous country. If the desire was there to take ove the world as other countries have throughout time, it could potentially be done. The thing is - the desire isn't there. The US runs on the principles of democracy, free enterprise, and freedoms. If the US took over the world, it would become either a totalitarian society or a dictatorship, two things we have looked down upon for decades. The United States is already one of the most prosperous countries in the world, one which believes in free enterprise [having a rich, poor, and middle class - much like a social hierarchy]. If the US was so determined to become the most wealthy country in society, it would go against its principles [which date back to the Declaration of Independence] of free enterprise. \n\nThe mear thought is silly, my dear. Silly.
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America hit its golden age after WW2.\n...out of the depression, economy strong,\nhigh patriotism, etc.  We had the opportunity\nto become a nation that every country could\nadmire.  We blew it in the 60s with an \nunpopular war...dissension, a misdirected\nrevolution against the establishment \n(misdirected because it included family,\nchurch, and law enforcement as part of the\nestablishment.)  All this led to a fragmenting\nof our country and a rise in violence, \nvulgarity, teen pregnancies, divorces, a\ndownward spiral in education...in short, what\nwe have today.  Granted, problems such as\ncivil rights for minorities and women should\nhave been addressed (and might have been,)\nbut opportunities that have resulted have\ncaused as much problem for the minorities as\nthey had before the 60s.  Anger and frustration\nare just as evident.
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To seperate the U.S. from Great britain.
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Someone here mentioned 50 military actions since world war II.  For the sake of the discussion lets assume that is true.  Fifty military actions and no adding those countries to the United States.  Fifty military actions and no use of atomic weapons.  Fifty military actions and spending billions to rebuild “other” countries.  Fifty military actions and the world has an increase of democracies.  Fifty military actions and millions of people continue trying (legally and illegally) to get into the United States.  If the United States wanted a third world war, it would be raging right now with the deaths with hundreds of millions dead from atomic war with no one able to stand up to the United States.  And yet it restrains from using its massive weapons.
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Our War strategy was called "ISLAND HOPING"...this meant we would attack and conquer one Island in the chain of Islands going towards Japan and then skip the next Island and then Conquer the next Island in the chain of Islands and so forth and so on.\nBut after conquering the Island of Okinawa, president Harry S. Truman gave the go ahead to drop first one ATOMIC BOMB, not "Nuclear" on the Japanese city of HIROSHIMA and ask the Japanese to surrender, but they refused to surrender.  So two weeks later we again dropped another ATOMIC BOMB on the city of NAGASAKI and Japan finally capitulated, thus ending World War Two.
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The scale of America's production during WWII can be summed up in the reaction of some "experts" to Franklin Roosevelt's declaration that America would produce 5,000 planes for use against the Axis powers.  \n\nThe experts predicted that Roosevelt's prediction was way off.  They were right, but in the wrong direction.  The U.S. factories did not produce 5,000 planes during the war, they produced 50,000!
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The main reason for the hostility between the USA and USSR after WWII was the division of post-war Europe.  Stalin wanted to keep the territories his armies "liberated", such as Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and part of Germany.  The US and UK wanted to give those countries the chance to elect their governments in free elections.\n\nThis, in a nutshell, is how it began.
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Basiclly in brief, Churchhill (GB) and FDR on a ship in Aug, 1941 talking about \nIn brief, the eight points were:\n\n-no territorial gains sought by the United States or the United Kingdom; \n-territorial adjustments must be in accord with wishes of the people; \n-the right to self-determination of peoples; \n-trade barriers lowered; \n-global economic cooperation and advancement of social welfare; \n-freedom from want and fear; \n-freedom of the seas; \n-disarmament of aggressor nations, postwar common disarmament
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It went through a tremendous transformation.  The lies of constant production resulting in needed constant obsolescence were largely developed then.  "A healthy economy" became defined as the rich getting richer.\n\nEngland and Europe ended owing American huge war debts and since their infrastructure was largely damaged Americans could sell almost anything they produced for several years after the war.
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The goals of Clinton's agenda were:\n1. Economic Leadership and a Stronger Economy.\n2. Fighting Crime and Restoring Our Communities.\n3. Strengthening Our Families: Security and Opportunity\n4. Cutting Bureaucracy\n5. Making Education A Priority\n6. Expanding Markets for American Products\n7. Protecting Our Environment\n8. Promoting Security and Freedom Abroad\n\nNeoliberalism is widely used as a description of the revived form of economic liberalism that became increasingly important in international economic policy discussions from the 1970s onwards.  I have added two links that go into a thorough description of neoliberalism.
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US was an independent country, so it controlled its own territoty, but not much beyond it (the present world domination started after WWII)
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After the elections:\n\n1. nothing\n2. nothing\n3. nothing\n4. nothing\n5. nothing\n6. nothing\n7. nothing\n8. nothing\n9. try and dismantle social security\n10. build a 700 mile fence along the border with Mexico while only funding 90 miles of it.
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With the Fourteen Points, Wilson sought to break the will of the Central Powers to fight by promising a just peace that would guarantee national independence and self-determination for all peoples involved in the war. he Fourteen Points outlined in this speech served as both the basis for peace and the hopeful establishment of a better post-war world at the conclusion of "the culminating and final war for human liberty." To read his speach, please refer to the source