Cold War: Abroad Unit Guide

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What were 2 causes of the Vietnam War?

What were 2 effects of the Vietnam War?

The Truman Doctrine set the stage of the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion...To ensure the peaceful development of nations, free from coercion, the United States has taken a leading part in establishing the United Nations...We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes...At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life...One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression...I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
- Excerpt from The Truman Doctrine, 1947.

Briefly identify ONE perspective about the United States' role in international affairs expressed in the Truman Doctrine excerpt above.

Briefly explain ONE historical development after 1945 that led to the United States taking the stance expressed in the Truman Doctrine excerpt above.

Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event in the period from 1947 to 1980 was a result of the message expressed in the Truman Doctrine excerpt above.

Briefly describe ONE specific historical continuity in American foreign policy in the period from 1945 to 1980. 

Briefly describe ONE specific historical change in American foreign policy in the period from 1945 to 1980

Briefly explain how ONE specific historical development in the period from 1945 to 1980 affected the success or failure of American foreign policy.

The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next 3 or 4 years of foreign food and other essential products -- principally from America -- are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help, or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character.

The remedy lies in breaking the vicious circle and restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole. The manufacturer and the farmer throughout wide areas must be able and willing to exchange their products for currencies the continuing value of which is not open to question.

Aside from the demoralizing effect on the world at large and the possibilities of disturbances arising as a result of the desperation of the people concerned, the consequences to the economy of the United States should be apparent to all. It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace. Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.
                                                                                                                                                                    - "Marshall Plan." 1947.

Briefly describe ONE short-term goal of the Marshall Plan as expressed in the Marshall Plan excerpt.

Briefly explain ONE specific historical event that led the United States to develop the Marshall Plan.

Brierly explain ONE way the Marshall Plan was important to the United States' foreign policy goals post-1945.