THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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maintain neutrality during WW I
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avoid conflict with Germany and Japan in the 1930s
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pursue involvement in the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1970s
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increase trade with Latin America in the 1970s
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Detailed explanation-1: -The terms containment, massive retaliation, and detente are most closely associated with US foreign policy efforts to do what? Pursue involvement in the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1970s. Which event is most closely associated with the END of the Cold War? Tearing down the Berlin Wall.
Detailed explanation-2: -The “containment policy” was the U.S. approach to containing, or preventing, the spread of Communism after World War II. The idea was to make other countries prosperous enough to avoid the temptation of communism. An early test of containment came in Greece and Turkey.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Truman Doctrine, also known as the policy of containment, was President Harry Truman’s foreign policy that the US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent the expansion of communism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dulles speech in 1954 was what formed the basis for the term massive retaliation, which would back up any conventional defense against conventional attacks with a possible massive retaliatory attack involving nuclear weapons.
Detailed explanation-5: -Kennan and Containment, 1947 Kennan, a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of “containment, ” the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war (1947–1989) with the Soviet Union.