Truman Doctrine: a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere.
Containment Policy: a United States policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism, enhance America’s security and influence abroad, and prevent a "domino effect".
Bay of Pigs Invasion: was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. Moreover, the United States Invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause, was the invasion of Panama by the United States in December 1989. It occurred during the administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and ten years after the Torrijos–Carter Treaties were ratified to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama by the year 2000. During the invasion, de facto Panamanian leader, general, and dictator Manuel Noriega was deposed, president-elect Guillermo Endara sworn into office and the Panamanian Defense Force dissolved.
US foreign policy w|regard to Korea and Vietnam: this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to expand communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. It represented a middle-ground position between détente and rollback.
Intervention: Indeed, the government's involvement prevents the intervention from comprising a crime, such as battery or kidnapping. In such cases the person has (usually) neither been served with any legal action alleging the necessity of intervention, nor had the opportunity to appear in court to defend against the proposed intervention.
Cold War development: the continuing state from about 1947 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World – primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies – and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States and its allies. Although the chief military forces never engaged in a major battle with each other, they expressed the conflict through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive aid to states deemed vulnerable, proxy wars, espionage, propaganda, conventional and nuclear arms races, appeals to neutral nations, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race.
War Powers Act: a U.S. federal law intended to restrict the power of the President to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. The law was adopted in the form of a United States Congress joint resolution; this provides that the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or in case of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces."
World War II Foreign Policy vs. Post-WWII Foreign Policy: The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States, as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the U.S. Department of State, are "to create a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community.” In addition, the United States
House Committee on Foreign Affairs states as some of its jurisdictional goals: "export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware; measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign nations and to safeguard American business abroad; International commodity agreements; international education; and protection of American citizens abroad and expatriation."
Limited War: a conflict in which the belligerents participating in the war do not expend all of each of the participants available resources at their disposal, whether human, industrial, agricultural, military, natural, technological, or otherwise in a specific conflict.
Containment in Europe: Authoritarian communist governments were initially installed in a bloc politics process that included extensive political and media controls, along with the Soviet approach to restricting emigration. Events such as the Tito-Stalin split and Berlin Blockade prompted stricter control from Moscow. While the Bloc persisted through revolts including the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the aftermath of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, its command economies experienced inefficiency and stagnation preceding the Bloc's dissolution.
Main Points of the Division of Germany: In order to prevent a repeat of the fiasco that was the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the Great War, it was decided by the Allies at a series of conferences - (Potsdam, Tehran and Yalta) that the country would be divided ie partitioned (along with much of Europe) into East and West - the former to be run under communism, the latter under capitalism - ideologically different regimes but both with a common intent that fascism would not rise again and threaten world peace.
Douglass Mac Arthur dismissal: In June 1950, after North Korea invaded South Korea, U.S. General Douglas Mac Arthur was designated commander of the United Nations forces defending South Korea. Mac Arthur conceived and executed an amphibious assault at Inchon, beginning on September 15, 1950, for which he was hailed as a hero. Seven months later on April 11, 1951, President Harry S. Truman fired him for making public statements that contradicted the official policies of the United States Government, especially with regard to Truman's order to restrict military interaction with the media.
Korean War similarities with Persian Gulf War: United States attempted to limit traffic through the Suez Canal; sentiment of the American public turned against the conflict; United Nations took action to halt the aggression; dictators of North Korea and Iraq were removed from office.
Nuclear Test Ban: bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996 but it has not entered into force.
Long Term Effect of Vietnam: The Vietnam War was a very costly war. It not only affected those in battles, but it also left behind long term effects on people everywhere in the world. It was an extremely costly war with over 58,000 Americans dead and over 150,000 wounded in battle. Many Americans were affected by the war for so many had died and many more were wounded. Also, the use of chemical weapons in Vietnam also affected the local population a great deal. One very harmful chemical was Agent Orange, “Today more than one million people suffer from serious diseases, including different types of cancer and disabilities, as a result of the spreading of defoliants and herbicides, and in particular AGENT ORANGE, which contained large amounts of DIOXIN.
Peace Corps: an American volunteer program ran by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries.
End of Cold War: In November, 1989 an ecstatic crowd of young people climbed on the Berlin Wall and began dismantling it. That event marked the end of the Cold War that had spawned 50 years of worldwide proxy wars and a nuclear arms race.
Domino Theory: was a theory during the 1950s to 1980s, promoted at times by the government of the United States, which speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. The domino theory was used by successive United States administrations during the Cold War to clarify the need for American intervention around the world.
Nixon’s Détente: is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term is often used in reference to the general easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1970s, a thawing at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War.
