U.S. Cold War Policy

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Examines U.S. foreign policy in the 1960s. Contends that policy was based on Cold War ideology & policy of containment, especially of Communism. & the Soviet Union. American failure in Cuba & Vietnam. Actions of Presidents Kennedy & Johnson. Cuban Missle Crisis, Bay of Pigs, escalation of war in Vietnam.

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"The American failures in Cuba and Vietnam in the 1960s were due in large part to the fear, arrogance and ignorance of Cold War policies that developed in the aftermath of World War II. By the 1960s, the foreign policy of the United States was based on Cold War ideology and the policy of containment of communism, especially Soviet Communism. This policy held sway in Cuba and Vietnam in the 1960s, from Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson to Nixon. Containment as a policy became so increasingly entrenched through the succeeding administrations that it carried the strength of an addiction for the leadership of the country. The basis of U.S. foreign policy was the conviction that the world was controlled by two forces---the U.S., representing goodness, and its evil enemy the Soviet Union.

Once this Cold War policy was in effect, it had a life of ..."

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