What was the major crisis during Eisenhower's presidency?\n\nWhat was the Primary Purpose of the Marshall Plan?\n\nWhat event ended McCarthyism?\n\nWhat were the Major Issues between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the postwar years 1945-50?\n\nWhat were the military strategies of WWII?\n\nWhere did Stalin agree to hold free elections in the countries of Eastern Europe?\n\nWho was the African American leader that demanded equal employment opportunities for blacks during WWII?\n\nCorrect answers would be GREAT and I'll be more than happy to give a high score to whoever is RIGHT. Thanks...
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There must be a site on the internet that can give you correct answers to your questions. If you think anyone here can just rattle these answers right off the top of their head, you sure have big expectations. I'm sure if you do a search, you'll find all you're looking for, plus it will be 100% accurate. <*)))><
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This smells like a research paper you should be doing your own research for.  I'll just say the foreign policy of the 1950's was totally dominated by worldwide struggle with the USSR for allies and hegemony.  Everything else was secondary.  On top of the perpetual war footing and a major shooting war in Korea there was the threat of nuclear holocaust.  And the American imagination has latched onto the idea that this decade was innocent and carefree, a Golden Age that makes our own times dark and frightening in comparison.  This grotesque glorification of the past plays right into the hands of the current regime, which manipulates fear to stay in power and strip away our constitutional rights.
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Bush w/ Hitler and Hussein? Idiot. How many civilians were killed in WW2 when the allies fire bombed Dresdon or Tokyo? What about the 2 nuclear bombs? With your mentality, why aren't you mentioning Roosevelt, Truman, or Churhill? How about Stalin? Milosovich, Pol Pot? Get a life.
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The Battle of the Bulge was a side-show compared to the epic struggles on the eastern Front, but that's another discussion.\n\nThese are just some items that come to mind re: your question:\n\n1. Full scale efforts to experiment with 'heavy water' thus leading to a nuclear device.\n\n2. Not allow the BEF to escape from Dunkirk.\n\n3. Start Operatioun Barbarossa in May of 1941 (in order to beat the Russian winter of that year.)\n\n4. Focus on one or two tank designs, eg. Panther and King Tiger, rather than dilute the resources with multiple designs.\n\n5. Give Rommel at least 4 or 5 more divisions to his Africa Corps, in order to complete the invasion of Egypt and open the middle east oil fields.\n\n6. After the invasion of Russia, allow the conquered countries into the german fold, rather than view them as sub-human.  Initially, many thought the germans were liberators against Stalin's iron rule.\n\n7. Rather than divert Panzers in the fall/winter of 1941 to encircle Kiev, keep the pressure on Moscow.\n\n8. The biggest blunder, leave Stalingrad, and use mobile forces to engage in encirclement of the Russian armies.  Urban warfare is not suited for the blitzkrieg tactics.\n\n9. Release the Panzer reserves, prior to the Normandy invasion, to Rommel, as he wanted, in order to commit them within hours of the invasion.  Instead, they were withheld by Hitler expecting an attack at Pas De Calais.\n\n10. I almost forgot, Hitler could've kept the pressure on RAF Fighter Command's airfields/radar stations in 1940-41, rather than switching to the bombing of London/Coventry and other cities.\n\njust to name a few.
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Carter was president and we were at peace except for the Cold War.\nCarter backed down from everyone, and gave the world the idea that the USA was a bunch of sissies.\nHe cut our military down to a point that we were in danger.\nCarter's weakness encouraged the Communists in many countries.
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it was the U.S. trying to stop the spread of communism. pesidents such as Truman used this as a foreign policy. Truman created the Truman Doctrine which orignated when Greece and Hungary were being supressed by Communism. They requested help and Truman said that the U.S. would provide money for anyone trying to stop communism.\n\nNATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was also created to stop the spread of communism. it was basically a pact between european and american countries that they would help eachother resist communism and an attack on one was an attack on all.\n\nVietnamn: we went to vietnamn to stop communism from spreading to south vietnamn. but we sucked and basically failed because saigon fell to communism after we left.\n\nthe cuban missile crisis: JFK learned that the soviets were putting missiles and bases in Cuba. HE spent 13 days negotioating with the soviet union and eventually got them to stay out of cuba if we removed our missiles from turkey and promised to stay out of cuba.\n\ni can't think of anymore right now but theres a lot.\n\nthe marshall plan was also created after world war two to keep communism out of the weak european countries.
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It was already decided to fight the war......how long can americans simply sit back supplying weapons to the allies and watch the war....so they decided tat it was time to show their power....also soviet union was rising in power and they had to control the spread of communism....
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Radical totalitarian dictatorships\nRadical dictatorships emerged in the Soviet Union, Germany, and Italy.\nThese dictatorships rejected parliamentary and liberal values (including rationality, peaceful progress, economic freedom, and a strong middle class), and sought full control over the masses--of whom they sought to mobilize for action.\nLenin, in the Soviet Union, provided a model for single-party dictatorship.\nTotalitarian leaders believed in will power, conflict, the worship of violence--and the idea that the individual was less valuable than the state and there are no lasting rights.\nTotalitarianism was a permanent revolution.\nThe USSR was totalitarianism of the left, while Nazi Germany was totalitarianism of the right.\nSome historians describe the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and Hitler as fascism which grew out of capitalism.\nFascism was expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism and anti-working class movements, and the glorification of war.\nMore recently, historians have emphasized the uniqueness of totalitarian rule in each country.\nStalin's Soviet Union\nStalin's modern totalitarian dictatorship was instituted by his five-year plans--which were economic, social (and propaganda) plans to build a new socialist humanity.\nFrom Lenin to Stalin\nBy 1921, the economy of Russia had been destroyed.\nIn 1921, Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) reestablished limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry.\nPeasants bought and sold goods on the free market.\nAgricultural production grew, and industrial production surpassed the prewar level.\nEconomic recovery and Lenin's death in 1924 brought a struggle for power between Stalin and Trotsky, which Stalin won.\nStalin met the ethnic demands for independence within the multinational Soviet state by granting minority groups limited freedoms.\nStalin's theory of "socialism in one country," or Russia building its own socialist society, was more attractive to many Communists than Trotsky's theory of "permanent revolution," or the overthrow of other European states.\nBy 1927, Stalin had crushed all opposition and was ready to launch an economicsocial revolution.\nThe fiveyear plans\nThe first fiveyear plan (1928) to increase industrial and agricultural production was extremely ambitious, but Stalin wanted to erase the NEP, spur the economy, and catch up with the West.\nStalin waged a preventive war against the betteroff peasants, the kulaks, to bring them and their land under state control.\n"Collectivization" of the peasants' land resulted in disaster for agriculture and unparalleled human tragedy.\nCollectivization in the Ukraine resulted in massive famine in 1932-1933.\nIn the USSR, 93 percent of peasant families had been forced onto collective farms (by 1933).\nPeasants fought back by securing the right to cultivate tiny family plots.\nBut it was a political victory for Stalin and the Communist party, as the peasants were eliminated as a potential threat.\nThe fiveyear plans brought about a spectacular growth of heavy industry, especially with the aid of government control of the workers and foreign technological experts.\nMassive investment in heavy industry, however, meant low standards of living for workers.\nLife and culture in Soviet society\nThe Communists wanted to create a new kind of society and human personality.\nNonfarm wages fell--by 1937, workers could buy only about 60 percent of what they bought in 1928.\nLife was hard, but people were often inspired by socialist ideals and did gain some social benefits.\nPersonal advancement came through education, and a skilled elite emerged.\nWomen were given much greater opportunities in industry and education.\nThe 1917 revolution proclaimed complete equality of rights for women.\nIn the 1920s, divorce and abortion were made easy, and women were urged to work outside the home and liberate themselves sexually.\nMedicine and other
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when Russia the USA and England meet to plan how to defeat the Germans the Russian leader Stalin told the west that all the land that he took back from the Germans would be controlled buy him(Russia) and so they went into the war knowing that the Russians would take most of eastern Europe.\n\nckeck out \nhttp://www.historyguy.com/War_list.html\nor search for cold war etc on google
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Technically, none of these are correct.  In 1947, George Kennan, who was responsible for setting up the US Embassy in Russia published an article in Foreign Affairs under the penname "X" calling on the US to prevent expansion of communism through the policy of 'containment'. It was based upon the dual plan of attempting to thwart the efforts of Soviet Russia of expanding into Asia and other parts of Europe and by doing so, economic system would collapse (this only took 30 years and a HUGE amount of deficit spending on OUR part). \n  \nTherefore, containment Policy would deal with USSR from a two-pronged approach (economic and militarily) Economically, the Marshall Plan was the large part of it the aid package delivered to France, Italy, Germany, etc. to rebuild after the war....secondly, NATO was created.  So I choose E....none of the above.
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The Truman Doctrine was part of the United States' political response to perceived aggression by the Soviet Union in Europe and the Middle East, illustrated through the communist movements in Iran, Turkey and Greece. As a result, American foreign policy towards the USSR shifted, as George F. Kennan phrased it, to that of containment. Many believe the Truman Doctrine to be the first in a succession of containment moves by the United States, followed by economic containment (The Marshall Plan) and military containment (the creation of NATO.) Under the Truman Doctrine, the United States was prepared to send any money, equipment, or military force to countries that were threatened by the communist government, thereby offering assistance to those countries resisting communism. In U.S. President Harry S Truman's words, it became "the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."\n\nPresident Truman made the proclamation in an address to the U.S. Congress on March 12, 1947 amid the crisis of the Greek Civil War (1946-1949). Truman insisted that if Greece and Turkey did not receive the aid that they needed, they would inevitably fall to communism with consequences throughout the region.\n\nTruman signed the act into law on May 22, 1947 which granted $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece. It should be noted however that this American aid was in many ways a replacement for British aid which the British were no longer financially in a position to give. The policy of containment and opposition to communists in Greece for example was carried out by the British before 1947 in many of the same ways it was carried out afterward by the Americans.\n\nThe doctrine also had consequences elsewhere in Europe. Governments in Western Europe with powerful communist movements such as Italy and France were given a variety of assistance and encouraged to keep communist groups out of governments. In some respects, these moves were in response to moves by the Soviet Union to purge opposition groups in Eastern Europe out of existence.\n\nIn 1950, Truman signed NSC-68 which shifted foreign policy from passive to active containment. The document largely inspired by George F. Kennan explicitly stated that the Communists planned for world domination.\n\nThe Truman Doctrine also contributed to America's first involvements in the Vietnam War. Starting shortly after the outbreak of the Korean war, Truman attempted to aid France's bid to hold onto its Vietnamese colonies. The United States supplied French forces with equipment and military advisors in order to combat Ho Chi Minh and anti-colonial communist revolutionaries. The US propped up the French not out of a belief that they could hold on in Vietnam, but out of a hope that a government not under the control of Ho Chi Minh could come to power.
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the allied army had been pushed all the way pack to the very bottom east corner of korea, around pusan. they could not retreat anymore except into the sea. MacArthur flanked the north korean army by landing at Incheon, about half way up Korea, close to Seoul on the coast. by doing this he split the North Korean army in half and managed to defeat them into retreat.\n\nthe fateful chapter is this; the main objective of the Allied army was to push N.K. back to the 38th Parallel, where the war had originally started. they did this relatively quickly and should have stopped there. By going into north korea, the US basically scared china into joining the war,(although they never officially did, it is a well known fact that china fought) china was worried that US might not stop at the N.K./Chinese border. once china joined the war, which should have already been over with a huge allied victory, it ended up taking three years longer, cost hundreds of thousand lives and ended up back where they started at the 38th parallel.\nhope that helps, better late than never i guess.\nas a note most of the countries involved and the american president at the time did not want MacArthur to cross the line into N.K. He basically bullied them into it.
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Question 1: \ni. a republican form of government \nii. ratify 13th Amendment \niii. entitle blacks to an education\n\nQuestion 2:\nAnalysis\nOn Jan. 1, 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared free all slaves residing in territory in rebellion against the federal government. This Emancipation Proclamation actually freed few people. It did not apply to slaves in border states fighting on the Union side; nor did it affect slaves in southern areas already under Union control. Naturally, the states in rebellion did not act on Lincoln's order. But the proclamation did show Americans-- and the world--that the civil war was now being fought to end slavery. \n\nLincoln had been reluctant to come to this position. A believer in white supremacy, he initially viewed the war only in terms of preserving the Union. As pressure for abolition mounted in Congress and the country, however, Lincoln became more sympathetic to the idea. On Sept. 22, 1862, he issued a preliminary proclamation announcing that emancipation would become effective on Jan. 1, 1863, in those states still in rebellion. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in America--this was achieved by the passage of the 13TH Amendment to the Constitution on Dec. 18, 1865--it did make that accomplishment a basic war goal and a virtual certainty. \n\nQuestion3: no clue, just read this\nIn the Wake of the Reconstruction  \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\na. Race Policy \ntoleration & moderation: black congressmen and rare public segregation \ntwo factors leading to deterioration: \ni. young blacks retrogressive, behaving like animals \nii. fear of miscegenation \niii. Populists disillusioned by black votes \niv. Northern acquiescence \nv. imperialist adventures: White Men's burden \nvi. social Darwinism; eugenics \nvii. economic depression: scapegoating\nb. Mississippi leading the way to disfranchise blacks (1888) \ni. poll tax \nii. residency requirement \niii. literacy test \niv. conviction \nv. grandfather clause\nc. State (14th Amendment) vs. individuals \nd. Separate but equal: Plessy v. Ferguson (1890); state could pass segregation laws \ne. The Debate between Book T. Washington (1856-1915) and W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1964): The Atlanta Compromise (1895) \nWashington: \ni. political rights and social privileges v. economic advances \nii. "Cast down the bucket where you are.  " \niii. "We have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching by the sick bed of your mothers and fathers, and often following them tear-dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigners can approach, ready to lay down our lives." \niv. "I do not believe that the Negro should cease voting, for a man cannot learn the exercise of self-government by ceasing to vote but I do believe that in his voting he should more and more be influenced by those of intelligence and character who are his next-door neighbor."\nDubois: \ni. political power \nii. civil rights \niii. higher education \niv. "It is utterly impossible, under modern competitve methods, for workingmen amd property owners to defend their rights and exist without the right of suffrage." \nv. "Silent submission to civic inferiority is bound to sap the manhood of any race in the long run."\nf. The Exclusion of Chinese Act (1882) \ni. when did the Chinese come? \nii. Central Pacific, Sierra Nevada (1865); 11,000 Chinese coolies \niii. They did not drink, strike or take a bath everyday \niv. 1,200 died \nv. 1867, 3,000 struck; 8-hour day and equal pay; $2 to $35 a month \nvi. 9/1868, broke through SN \nvii. 1871, 300,000 Chinese; 1877, depression; labor unrest (transparency) \nviii. 1882, Exclusion Act Passed \nviv. 1881, 40,000 entered; 1883, 23 allowed to enter\ng. Indian Removal \ni. The Sand Creek Massacre (1864): J. M. Chiving
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Dwight D. Eisenhower \n\nBringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War. He pursued the moderate policies of "Modern Republicanism," pointing out as he left office, "America is today the strongest, most influential, and most productive nation in the world." \n\nBorn in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons. He excelled in sports in high school, and received an appointment to West Point. Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916....
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Yes, it defeated National Socialism (Nazi), kept communism at bay in several countries, and there is evil in this world.  People who want to destroy the American way of life. \n\nJust think of the genocide that took place under Pol Pot in Cambodia after the US pulled out of Viet Nam.  What about those in China that were executed after Mao took over.  What about the genocides in Africa? Should we just let those go unchecked?  What is the UN doing to stop that?  Nothing.\n\nI don't want to fight forever but sometimes there just isn't any choice.
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Compare news stories circa 1940, 1917 & 1861 and todays news articles on American wars from at least 3 separate newspapers. You will need to go to achives for most of these years.\n\nFind out the public support percentage\nGovernment expenditure on the war\nThe entertainment of the day\nPresidential speeches on the war\nAny austerity measures the public was part of\n& Foreign allies\n\nOne suggestion for you. Keep the topic current.
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Basically World World II was like a continuation of World World I. Essentially this is what happened. World War I starts (aka - The Great War pre WWII) and afterwards its like everyone took a break. I'm not joking either. It was like a pause for 20 years. In the early 1930's, Japan invaded China. China actually had the most amount of casualties, not Russia or Eastern Europe. \n\nMost countries blamed Germany and so Germany had many sanction and restrictions put on the country. Hitler played off of these emotions and blamed the Jewish population for all of Germany's problems. At this time, Hitler was also quickly moving up in the ranks and finally became Dictator. \n\nHitler then started annexing countries in the mid to left 1930's and every country began to appease him. After he took over Poland and much of France, it was too late. The non-aggression pact between Germany and Russia made Hitler essentially invulnerable because from Eastern Europe was essentially all his to take over minus Russia. (Hitler would later reneg on the non-agreesion pact)\n\nThe United States needed an excuse to get into WWII and they finally got one on June 6, 1941 - Pearl Harbor. \n\nAbout 6 million jews were killed and 6 million gypsies, homosexuals, etc were killed. \n\nIn China, about 20-25 million were killed.