This week we started to talk about the cold war. During this war specifically, anticommunism was a big topic. The U.S even created a containent policy to help combat it. A plan they created was called the Marshall plan. It was made to help aid European countries tht had not fallen under communism. The Marshall Plan provided a promise of economic and finacial stability and the U,S spent aproximately 13 billion dollars financing this plan. Do you think there could have been a more effective plan? and if so... what would it entail? By providing the monetary provisions for Europe, the U.S was also brinign money back to itself. When money went to Europe, then they bought American goods and used American workers which help build up the U.S. economy as well. The Marshall plan also allocated the idea that the U.S would protect these countries with the army and would not hesitate to use force on any communist like actions. The main points of the Marshall plan were created to help support the containment policy and help combat communism. What do you believe was the main point of the Marshall Plan? Why did America create so many different plans to bolster the Containment policy?
Why do you think America was so threatened by the Soviet Union and communism in general? How do you think that America's fear impacted America and contributed to important decisions that were made?
ReplyDeleteI think that America felt threatened by the mainly because of its sheer size. It was the largest empire that existed at that time and was always expanding and taking more power. I think that the US mainly wanted to limit this so that it would not become a threat to other countries. In the beginning of World War II, many Americans supported the Nazis purely because they could challenge the USSR. Americans just felt that it was too large.
DeleteThe US was afraid for many reasons, A nuclear war could entail if the Soviet Union was handled incorrectly. I feel that America's fear made it so that the US would use communism as an excuse to do things. They formed the CIA to fight communism etc.
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