why was there increasing interventionist approach to foreign policy? 

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  • why was there increasing interventionist approach to foreign policy?
    • pearl harbour & British weakness
      • Lend lease Act 1941
        • supply goods to allies like Britain
        • congress asked for $7b to fund
      • 1941 Atlantic Charter
        • Joint war aims with Britain
      • 1941 German U boats sink US patrol ships
        • 17%in favour of US war on Germany
      • Japanese attack Pearl Harbour
        • Motivation to join WW2
          • allied to Britain and Soviet Union
        • More people in favour of war
    • USA becomes superpower
      • WW2 makes USA superpower
        • 5 million soldiers
        • largest ammunition industry in world
        • 1943 Eisenhower elected SACEUR
        • effected less that others
      • USA has atomic weapons
        • USA first to build atomic bomb
      • economic power
        • formation of World Bank
        • International Monetary Fund
      • Marshall Plan
        • aid war torn countries to prevent communist take over
      • Occupying Japan
      • Global responsibility
    • Cold war
      • Want to contain communism
        • Truman Doctrine
        • Believed USSR was expansionist
        • Eastern Europe and china fell to communism 1949
        • Sent troops into Vietnam and Korea
      • US public warned of threats
        • duck and cover in schools
        • buy shelter for $1300 in 1958
      • 1947 - 48 US holding of bombs went from 13 - 50
        • Arms race with USSR
      • UN and NATO increases president power in wars
        • Korea with Truman
        • Kennedy and Bay of pigs in Cuba
      • 1947 National Security act made large permenant military force
        • Created CIA and National Security Council

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