Essays on Marshall Plan

US Foreign Policy and Latin America During the Cold War

The Alliance for progress was a multi billion dollar aid program that was devised by the Kennedy administration to foster economic relations with Latin America and also thwart the growth of communism in the region in the aftermath of the cold war. The Alliance for Progress was a result of the cold war between the USSR and the US, the Cuban revolution and the US fear that communism could take root in a region that was poor, unstable and economically underdeveloped. Latin America was largely colonized by the Europeans and the relation between the US and the continent was ...

Introduction

The victory of the allied powers in the Second World War was highly associated with the American entry into the war. The United States of America brought with them a military muscle consisting of state of the art mechanization and strategic military geniuses. The citizens of the United States of America had been through the most devastating economic depression in their history as the nation was followed by the ensuing regimentation just before the war started. The Second World War is probably the most mechanized and dreaded war in the history mainly due to its outcome and effects on ...

Since 1945 the United States has been involved in more overseas conflicts then anytime since the first settlers arrived in the 1600’s. This paper will look at how and why the United States went from staying out of world affairs to being in the middle of all the major conflicts of the twentieth and twenty- first centuries. Since the Revolutionary War, America had elected to remain isolated from overseas conflicts. This was mostly because Americans wanted to see themselves as better than the Europeans (Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia). There was also the issue of choosing sides in ...

The end of World War II ushered in a new era in international policy. After the Axis powers were defeated, the world became polarized between two competing camps: the democratic capitalists, and the authoritarian communists. The first twenty years after the war were especially critical, as various US presidents sought to implement policies to contain the threat of the spreading red nations, which no world leader had seen before. Important policies such as the Truman Doctrine, New Look, and Flexible Response were created to protect American interests, though they at times differed from each other. Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and ...

World War II was bad for Europe. A comedian once said of the first World War that it would have been better for all concerned if the countries involved had simply stayed home and shot fifty thousand of their own people every week, and that sentiment also gives some idea of just how devastated Europe was after the war that followed the war to end all wars (Blackadder Goes Forth 1989). If anything that falls short of it; “unlike World War Onethe Second War—Hitler’s War—was a near-universal experience” (Judt 2005, p. 25). As many as thirty-six ...

Understanding the intrigues of an international system is as complex as understanding the factors that have influenced its evolution over time. However, it is clear that the international system underwent its most profound changes in the periods of the First and Second World Wars. The stack difference in international relations between the post war period and before the war can only be illustrated by having a detailed overview of the situation after the First World War; which set the stage for the Second World War, and the ensuing international system afterwards. In fact, it would not be an overstatement ...

History, Essay

The Red Army that marched into the German territory also swiftly conquered other surrounding vicinities like Latvia and Estonia, among others and absorbed them into the Soviet Union. Within a short span, the communist forces were successful in conquering even the Romanian as well as the Bulgarian governments with almost no effort. Towards the end of 1945, it was almost clear that the Lublin Regime that had the complete support of the Soviet Union had gained total control of Poland, thus resulting in the breach of Yalta promise that upholds free and unconstrained elections in those provinces. Within no ...