In 1953 George C. Marshall was awarded the nobel peace price. How did this selection pay tibute to the Truman Doctrin as well as the Marshall Plan
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Upon his return, Marshall was named Secretary of State in 1947. In this role, on Thursday June 5, 1947 at a speech at Harvard University, he outlined the U.S. government's preparedness to contribute to European recovery. The European Recovery Plan, which became known as the Marshall Plan, helped Europe quickly rebuild and earned Marshall the honor of being named TIME's Man of the Year in 1948 and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.\n\nsource: www.Wikipedia.org\n\nThe Marshall Plan was generally acclaimed a success in its day and has admirably withstood the rigors of historical inquiry. Moreover, it gave impetus to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and to the European Common Market. In recognition of Marshall's world leadership, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.\n\nSource: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/marshall/marsh2.htm\n\n In 1953, George C. Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in efforts to rebuild Europe and promote peace in the world. He is the only soldier to ever have received this prestigious award\n\nSource: http://www.20thcenturyrolemodels.org/marshall/nobel.html\n\n\nAdditional source: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9051112
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FDR supported the Manhattan Project and though it was not yet complete at the time of his death I fully believe that he intended to use this new weapon when it was ready to use.  At the time of his death even Truman did not know about the Atomic project to build a new weapon so I doubt very seriously that there was ever any discussion at any level as to what the targets may have been during his life, however given his fortitude towards the war I have no doubt that he would have made the same call Truman did and I have always felt that Truman made the call he did because he felt FDR would have made the same one.
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I think Franklin Delano Roosevelt, because his influence is still felt today.  Social programs, foreign policy are still around 61 years after his death.  I think Woodrow Wilson was very influential with his idea for the League of Nations.  Theodore Roosevelt for his belief in the environment and the national park system.  Eisenhower because of the interstate system.  Nixon because we learned that the President was not infallible.  James Monroe because of his writing of the US Constitution.  Thomas Jefferson because of his brilliance and his gift of books that became the Library of Congress.   That's my list.
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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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Query - have any of you read the book, or looked at the plan? It's clever, not perfect but at least it's something more than Sally Struthers standing there teary-eyed and saying "think of the children!"\n\nI'm inclined to think this plan is worth a shot. Yes, it'd be nice if Bono and Jolie would put their money where their mouths are, but it seems a far better use of tax dollars spent on foreign aid to render it through programs that actually do something rather than funnel it through dubious government entities that allow a great deal of siphoning off the top by corrupt leaders.\n\nOr we could just allow Malthusian processes to take care of it through war, famine and pestilence. Not that these don't impact us. Famine drives up the prices of crops. Pestilence, well, we now have HIV which may have been caught and contained far sooner if there was a public health infrastructure in place, and hemorrhagic fevers native to many of these regions are the stuff of nightmares. Then there's war, but I don't think I need to remind you how many situations the military has gotten into after the humanitarian portion of the mission collapsed. I think it's simply cheaper in the long-run to try to ameliorate poverty rather than deal with it's aftermath, but it's as much your tax money as it is mine, so we'll see the exit polls.
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Here is a little something that is not available on wikipedia: He was an artist and loved to draw. He was great at picking locks. He studied at MIT and Princeton. He worked on the Manhattan Project and O-ring problem of the space rockets. He was one of the best physics teachers ever. He wrote a lot of books including Feynman Lectures on Physics, which was an edited form of his lectures for freshman and sophomore students at Caltech. He always wanted to be like Paul Dirac (and he did.) He hung up when they called to let him know that he was going to get the Nobel Prize on Physics because it was in the middle of the night. He wasn't gonna accept the Nobel, but he changed his mind when he heard about the money. He died in February 1988 because of cancer.
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Faced with the prospect of a direct assault on the Japanese mainland that would have cost millions of lives, many American, president Truman chose the “nuclear option”. The humanitarian consideration of destroying civilian populations to neutralize military targets is gut wrenching for the leader of a moral society. From the American perspective, especially those that would have lead the assault, it was the correct decision.
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Ever hear of the Nobel Prize? It´s instigated in the honor of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel who "discovered" dynamite. Here´s some facts:\n\nNobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to manipulate, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as dynamite.\n\nSeveral explosions were reported at their family-owned factory in Heleneborg, and a disastrous one in 1864 killed Alfred's younger brother Emil and several other workers.
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In 1939, under the encouragement of Szilárd, Einstein sent a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt urging the study of nuclear fission for military purposes, under fears that the Nazi government would be first to develop atomic weapons. Roosevelt started a small investigation into the matter which eventually became the massive Manhattan Project. Einstein himself did not work on the bomb project, however.\n\nThe International Rescue Committee was founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein to assist opponents of Adolf Hitler
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ask bill clinton...when he wasnt dittling around with monica, he made China the "Most favored nation"...title which was an honor in trade terms...it meant give them anything they want...we want their business....\n\nheres another ism for you mind...guess who was the most favored visitor to the white house during the clinton years...over 131 visits....\n\nanswer.....Yasser Arafat...\n\nwho we have also given about 4 million dollars a year for  25 years...\n\nthe founder of the Hamas palistianians...that money didnt do us a lot of good....we financed his operation...\n\npolitics makes strange bed fellows.....Mark Twain...1863
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Check this out http://canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/1939ww2.html
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Milton Friedman (born July 31, 1912) is a U.S. economist, known primarily for his work on macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history, statistics, and for his advocacy of laissez-faire capitalism. In 1976 he won the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (often called "The Nobel Prize in Economics") for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." [1] His television series Free to Choose, aired on PBS in early 1980; it became a book coauthored with his wife Rose Friedman, that was widely read, as were his columns for Newsweek magazine.\n\nIn statistics, he devised the Friedman test as a non-parametric analogue to the two-way analysis of variance.\n\nBorn in New York City, New York to a working class family of Jewish Hungarian immigrants from Beregszász (Berehove, today Ukraine), Friedman grew up in Rahway, New Jersey, was educated at Rutgers University (B.A., 1932) and at the University of Chicago (M.A., 1933). After working for the federal government and for Columbia University, he received a Ph.D. from that institution in 1946. He then served as Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1976, where he contributed significantly to the intellectual tradition of the so-called Chicago school of economics. Since 1977, Friedman has been affiliated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.\n\nFriedman is widely regarded as the leading proponent of the monetarist school of economic thought. He maintains that there is a close and stable link between inflation and the money supply mainly that the phenomenon of inflation is to be regulated by controlling the amount of money poured into the national economy by the Federal Reserve Bank, he rejects the use of fiscal policy as a tool of demand management, and he holds that the government's role in the guidance of the economy should be severely restricted. Friedman wrote extensively on the Great Depression, which he called the "Great Contraction," arguing that it had been caused by an ordinary financial shock whose duration and seriousness were greatly increased by the subsequent contraction of the money supply caused by the misguided policies of the directors of the Federal Reserve. Friedman also argued for the cessation of government intervention in currency markets, thereby spawning an enormous literature on the subject, as well as promoting the practice of freely floating exchange rates.\n\nFriedman has also supported various libertarian policies such as decriminalization of drugs and prostitution. In addition, he headed the Reagan committee that researched the possibility of a move towards a paid/volunteer armed force, and played a role in the abolition of the draft that took place in the 1970s in the U.S. He served as a member of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board in 1981. In 1988 he received both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science. He has said that he is a libertarian philosophically but a member of the U.S. Republican Party for the sake of "expediency" ("I am a libertarian with a small l and a Republican with a capital R. And I am a Republican with a capital R on grounds of expediency, not on principle.")\n\nFriedman made headlines by proposing a negative income tax to replace the existing welfare system and then opposing the bill to implement it because it merely supplemented the existing system rather than replacing it. In recent years Friedman has devoted much of his effort to promoting school vouchers that can be used to pay for tuition at both private and public schools, saying, "What is needed in America is a voucher of substantial size available to all students, and free of excessive regulations." His idea is that vouchers would allow private schools to compete with the public scho
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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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Correct.  President Taft died in 1930 (president until 1913).  Truman was president in 1947.  The Taft of the Taft-Hartley Act was Senator Robert Taft of Ohio.  Now go get some food!
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It was Franklin D. Roosevelt.  I remember this, because I did a report on him in 6th grade.  I never heard about the pilot that dropped a kid on Japan.
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"Franklin Delano Roosevelt\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html\nWinston Churchill\nhttp://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1\nJoseph Stalin\nhttp://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_stalin.html\nMeet the "Big Three". These were the heads of the main allied countries who participated in the Yalta Conference in February of 1945. Yalta is a city on the coast of the Black Sea which was then part of the USSR and is now part of Ukraine. Their mission was to discuss post-war arrangements for Europe. Some of the agreements made at the conference included plans for dividing Germany into four zones of occupation (American, British, French, and Soviet), plans for war crimes trials, and plans for war reparations. Read some of the original documents pertaining to the conference."