Douglas Macarthur Speech: American Policy In The Pacific

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During the the Douglas Macarthur speech about “American policy in the Pacific” Macarthur speech was his decisions about the war-even they were against truman ( A.K.A President truman). The reasoning behind this is just because he was trying to avoid the third war. The reason why I say this because in the speech “American policy in the pacific” the three thing that he state about how he is right about what is he said is that he was in the WWI and WWII, he was the president of west point and also he was against Asia. Stating the factor Lead to president Truman got very upset because of what he had said. Leading to President Truman to kick out of office in the military. The background of of Douglas Macarthur is that Douglas MacArthur was

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