Morgann Byers
Mr. Holzhauer
Government
10 May 2018
American Foreign Policy Foreign policies have been somewhat important in our society. They have shown us the flaws in the statements, and the rules that we have created and making sure we do not repeat the mistakes that we have made in the past. Previous policies have gotten us into unexceptional places in our society and even into foreign affairs. Former vice president Hubert H. Humphrey stated “Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.” Before the start of World War 1 foreign policies such as the Good Neighbor Policy and the Monroe Doctrine had been produced. The Good Neighbor Policy was adopted by Franklin d. Roosevelt in 1933 and designed to improve the relations …show more content…
World War 2 involved over thirty countries. In early 1923 Adolf Hitler predicted a european war that would result in the ending of the Jewish Race in Germany. In 1939 Hitler and Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin signed the Nonaggression Pact. On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland from the west and on September 17th Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. On June 22, 1941 Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union. With Britain facing Germany in Europe, the United States was the only nation that was capable of combating Japan. On December 7, 1941, 360 Japanese aircrafts composed of dive-bombers, torpedo bombers, and a few fighters, was launched in two waves at the giant U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. “The base at that time was accommodating 70 U.S. fighting ships, 24 auxiliaries, and 300 planes and all eight battleships in the harbour were hit” (World War 2, 2018).
Collective Security was a plan made to prevent and/or stop wars from happening. “Neither the League nor the United Nations were able to operate the principle successfully to prevent aggression because of the conflicts of interest among states, especially among the major powers” (Collective Security, 2018). This plan was derived to keep peace between countries and prevent more unnecessary deaths. However, this did not maintain peace due to fighting among the major …show more content…
Truman created the Truman Doctrine in 1947. “The Truman Doctrine states that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces” (The Truman Doctrine). Although this was against the United States plan to stay out of wars it proved the strength of the U.S. to other countries. Due to this doctrine, confusion between the United States and the Soviet Union expanded. This caused the Soviet Union to impose a blockade on Berlin, to combat this the United States began to airlift supplies into Berlin. Because of this, it defeated the purpose of the blockade, and was cancelled in 1949.
A rivalry between the united States and the Soviet Union created the Cold War which resulted in being more of an arms race. The Korean War took place during the Cold War. In 1950 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army journeyed across the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south (Korean War). The United States saw this as an opportunity to fight communism. In July 1953, The Korean War ended and The Korean Peninsula remained
Mr. Holzhauer
Government
10 May 2018
American Foreign Policy Foreign policies have been somewhat important in our society. They have shown us the flaws in the statements, and the rules that we have created and making sure we do not repeat the mistakes that we have made in the past. Previous policies have gotten us into unexceptional places in our society and even into foreign affairs. Former vice president Hubert H. Humphrey stated “Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.” Before the start of World War 1 foreign policies such as the Good Neighbor Policy and the Monroe Doctrine had been produced. The Good Neighbor Policy was adopted by Franklin d. Roosevelt in 1933 and designed to improve the relations …show more content…
World War 2 involved over thirty countries. In early 1923 Adolf Hitler predicted a european war that would result in the ending of the Jewish Race in Germany. In 1939 Hitler and Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin signed the Nonaggression Pact. On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland from the west and on September 17th Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. On June 22, 1941 Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union. With Britain facing Germany in Europe, the United States was the only nation that was capable of combating Japan. On December 7, 1941, 360 Japanese aircrafts composed of dive-bombers, torpedo bombers, and a few fighters, was launched in two waves at the giant U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. “The base at that time was accommodating 70 U.S. fighting ships, 24 auxiliaries, and 300 planes and all eight battleships in the harbour were hit” (World War 2, 2018).
Collective Security was a plan made to prevent and/or stop wars from happening. “Neither the League nor the United Nations were able to operate the principle successfully to prevent aggression because of the conflicts of interest among states, especially among the major powers” (Collective Security, 2018). This plan was derived to keep peace between countries and prevent more unnecessary deaths. However, this did not maintain peace due to fighting among the major …show more content…
Truman created the Truman Doctrine in 1947. “The Truman Doctrine states that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces” (The Truman Doctrine). Although this was against the United States plan to stay out of wars it proved the strength of the U.S. to other countries. Due to this doctrine, confusion between the United States and the Soviet Union expanded. This caused the Soviet Union to impose a blockade on Berlin, to combat this the United States began to airlift supplies into Berlin. Because of this, it defeated the purpose of the blockade, and was cancelled in 1949.
A rivalry between the united States and the Soviet Union created the Cold War which resulted in being more of an arms race. The Korean War took place during the Cold War. In 1950 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army journeyed across the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south (Korean War). The United States saw this as an opportunity to fight communism. In July 1953, The Korean War ended and The Korean Peninsula remained