Policy Of Containment Analysis
In president Eisenhower’s speech he stated that “The free nations of the mid east need, and for the most part want, added strength to assure their continued independence." on January 5, 1957. While all presidents wanted to stop communism, they all had different ideas on how to accomplish that. President Truman used economic aid while president Eisenhower focused on military aid. President Kennedy focused on military use and Flexible Response. During the cold war, which was a period in time when the U.S. and soviet union didn’t get along so, the two presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower were in control in that period of time(Ayers 817). The Policy of Containment was when the U.S. used many strategies to try and prevent the spread of communism. As
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Flexible response is a strategy that helped the U.S. find different ways other than using a bad time of war. As said he favored flexible response, but at the same time he still used Military Use as well. He used this by bringing in troops and using our troops to fight in their war. Most Americans long for change because they know that all policies and complacencies. Not always using the armed forces in time of crisis is right. The U.S. was involved in these arguments because they had different ideas, then the soviet union. Basically we wanted to keep control of any funds that were made in Greece. Next he used Economic Aid by having other countries disagree with the ideas of communism, but they knew their country was going to become communist so Kennedy tried to give them an easy way out of it by giving money and helping out. One of the quotes he said was “We want to send armies to other people- just as we send them the ideas of democracy in which we believe- but we cannot send them the will to use those arms or to avoid by those ideals.” Foreign Policy is how we deal with other countries so that’s why we are trying to work together as one union(Ayers 147). They all wanted to help South Korea because they didn’t have the resources to help themselves. We wanted to give other countries our money and supplies to help us in
Flexible response is a strategy that helped the U.S. find different ways other than using a bad time of war. As said he favored flexible response, but at the same time he still used Military Use as well. He used this by bringing in troops and using our troops to fight in their war. Most Americans long for change because they know that all policies and complacencies. Not always using the armed forces in time of crisis is right. The U.S. was involved in these arguments because they had different ideas, then the soviet union. Basically we wanted to keep control of any funds that were made in Greece. Next he used Economic Aid by having other countries disagree with the ideas of communism, but they knew their country was going to become communist so Kennedy tried to give them an easy way out of it by giving money and helping out. One of the quotes he said was “We want to send armies to other people- just as we send them the ideas of democracy in which we believe- but we cannot send them the will to use those arms or to avoid by those ideals.” Foreign Policy is how we deal with other countries so that’s why we are trying to work together as one union(Ayers 147). They all wanted to help South Korea because they didn’t have the resources to help themselves. We wanted to give other countries our money and supplies to help us in