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- Our foreign policy changed when Pearl harbor was bombed
- Remember:
- A new threat to U.S. security immediately after World War II
- Our policy of involvement meant we would work in the world to stop the spreading of communism
- Containment
- U.S. emerged from World War II as the “leader of the free world”
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- Why did we spend money to help rebuild Europe?????
- 1. Help these countries rebuild and improve their economies so they would not be as likely to turn to communism
- 2. By improving their economies they could become trading partners with the U.S.
- We also helped rebuild Japan (NOT part of the Marshall Plan)
- Military Containment
- Germany
- We left our troops in West Germany to stop the Soviets from spreading their control
- U.S. military force occupied Japan following World War II
- Domestic Issues
- Slide 19
- 1. U.S. soldiers were not discharged all at once, but slowly over a couple of years. That way they did not flood the job market
- 2. G.I. Bill
- How did the
- 1. Home construction increased - money to build
- 2. Many went to college and vocational schools which delayed their entry into the work force and
- 3. Allowed new businesses to start and they would hire workers
- 4. Colleges, construction companies and transportation companies all benefited from people using their G.I. Bills
- Nuremberg Trials
- Unlike World War I, there was NOT an effort to return to conditions before the war.
- Slide 29
- Slide 30
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