why was there increasing interventionist approach to foreign policy?
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- Created on: 13-04-17 19:16
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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
- Motivation to join WW2
- Lend lease Act 1941
- 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
- WW2 makes USA superpower
- 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
- Want to contain communism
- pearl harbour & British weakness
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