Why was the USA so hostile to communism after 1945?
- Created by: C.P.
- Created on: 03-07-14 13:37
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- Why was the USA so hostile to communism after 1945?
- The Long Telegram, which heavily influenced Trumans Hard-line approach, was aggressive and expanisonist
- US military and industrial careas put pressure on the govnerment to to kepp arms levels high
- Truman was an amateur in foreign policy and so adopted a hard-lined foreign policy to compensate
- The US failed to understand the Soviet's Union's obsession with security and merely saw them as trying to one up America
- Appeasement against Hitler had failed and so it had to be hostile
- US industry wanted to protect its markets in Europe which were under threat by communism
- The USSR was seen a representing a political system that was a direct threat to capitlism
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