RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 307 Republican.” To Taft, the act was a signal to the world that the U.S. ...

308 ChaPter^6 begun in 1948] were expected to use it to purchase good back from the U.S. and thus help rebuild American industri ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 309 Vittles,” the U.S. sent over 2 million tons of supplies–food, medicin ...

310 ChaPter^6 U.S. response was a dedicated and noble effort to preserve freedom in Europe and stand up to a zealous Communist a ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 311 While the traditional story of the cold war revolved around the U.S. ...

312 ChaPter^6 more popular and more likely to win the war, and that Jiang was corrupt and almost certain to lose. One American d ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 313 ever. The U.S. and other powers instead divided Korea in half, at the ...

314 ChaPter^6 Truman agreed that the U.S. should try to take control of all of Korea, the Chinese had other ideas and in mid-Oct ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 315 Using the Military as an Economic Program As the U.S. faced global cr ...

316 ChaPter^6 “free” state fighting against the evil Soviet Union, a “slave” state. It put the Cold War in good and evil terms. ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 317 military spending remained quite high–in the $35-40 billion range. Ra ...

318 ChaPter^6 lar place and gain powerful and control that way, through the continued growth of the Open Door. But when a foreig ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 319 the profits paid to Iran over the previous fifty years. Iran, in fact ...

320 ChaPter^6 rely more heavily for support upon the Tudeh Party, home to many Communists and radicals. In the U.S., Eisenhower ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 321 in 1950 had a population of around 3 million. It was a poor, agricult ...

322 ChaPter^6 companies now, incredibly, cried that they were the ones being cheated. The Americans immediately began to plot wa ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 323 incoherent, but the meeting of economic interests, government connect ...

324 ChaPter^6 they would explode in the next decades to create a huge crisis in American life. Vietnam was a small country [abou ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 325 In the North, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRVN], Ho an ...

326 ChaPter^6 As part of the original agreement, Diem was only to be in power until elec- tions were held in 1956 to choose a si ...