Dean Acheson

The Secretary of State, Dean Acheson wrote in 1947, "[T]he existence of discrimination against minority groups in this country has an adverse effect upon our relations with other countries. We are reminded over and over by some foreign newspapers and spokesmen, that our treatment…

Thus, in the initial stages of the Cold War, containment relied heavily on the atomic weapon monopoly the United States held over the rest of the world. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated vividly that the United States would employ the most destructive weapon ever developed by mankind. During the height of the Berlin Blockade crisis the United States dispatched B-29 bombers to Great Britain in an attempt to show Stalin that force would be met with greater force. A National…

President Dwight D. Eisenhower succeeded in his presidential campaign by diving into the realm of television broadcasting. In the 1952 election, Eisenhower set a strong precedence for televised political advertisements. Before Eisenhower, Democrats had been in office for nearly two decades. American was in a troubled time filled with economic depression and war. As a Republican candidate, Eisenhower, a well-admired World War II hero and North Atlantic Treaty Organization commander, convinced…

Embassy informed the U.S that they would no longer provide financial aid to Greece and Turkey. Both countries needed assistance and were at risk of falling under Soviet control, particularly Greece, who was in the middle of a civil war (Frazier 1984) Dean Acheson the Undersecretary of State presented members of congress with a theory known as ‘the domino theory’ that if one nation…

Controversy surrounds whether the intervention of the U.S. in the Korean War was justified or not. One side believes that Truman was inconsistent with American strategic policy which is based on a statement made by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Korea was excluded in U.S. defense perimeter of strategic containment policy. Although it is arguable that the intervention was unnecessary and unjustified, the war played an important role in modern history. The Korean War was a crucial event during…

Joseph McCarthy Few people in American history have ever plunged the country into panic as Joseph McCarthy did in the 1950s. He single-handedly fabricated a scandal he claimed reached into the highest branches of the US government. Lacking substantial evidence, he accused various senators, representatives, and officials of being communist spies. His infamous “list” of such people was comprised of information that was “either taken from other sources or misremembered or just made up” (Kelley).…

Therefore some may argue it to be inevitable that Britain found such movements very difficult to control. This is includes the violent Mau Mau Rebellion of 1952 which is proclaimed to have been unexpected, but believed to have triggered reform and Kenyan independence in 1963. Also, Malaya and Cyprus too saw the occurrence of popular and unexpected demands for independence which increased Britains expenditure on defence causing in some cases the problem to escalate and therefore creating foreign…

Korea had been of great importance to the USSR, the Peoples Republic of China and the US since the early nineteenth century. Following this tradition, subsequently after World War 2, North Korea with the backing USSR made an attempt in unifying Korea across the 38th parallel, the border between North and South Korea. The Korean War officially begun on June 25, 1950 in a time of the burgeoning Cold War in which was an international competition between the main protagonists, the Democratic U.S and…

Taiwan, U.S., and China Relations A myriad of elemental factors have affected, and continue to affect, Sino-American relations. One factor, which has played a role in developing the complex relationship between the United States and China, is Taiwan. The purpose of this essay is to contrast the United States’ ever-changing stance on the “One-China” framework, against mainland China’s solid vision of its “One-China” principle. The observation of United States’ flailing stance on the issue of…

Harry S. Truman became the 33rd President of the United State on April 12, 1945. Truman had only been vice-president for 12 weeks when President Franklin D. Roosevelt [FDR] died suddenly and catapulted Truman into the presidency. Truman had not been aware of the nature of Roosevelt’s long illness and knew little about crucial issues relating to the development of the atomic bomb, the increasing conflict with the Soviet Union and other wartime problems. Truman told the media, “I felt like the…