Us Foreign Policy
As the world has been increasingly interconnected, every country’s economy and national security depends greatly on those of others and as one of the biggest and most powerful countries in the world, the United States of American always has a great impact on foreign countries with its foreign policy.
Two important American foreign policies which affected the lives of millions were Harry Truman’s use of atomic bomb to end the Second World War and the United States’s involvement in the Korean War. During the first few years of World War II, the United States chose to remain neutral because the American people weren’t very happy with their involvement in the First World War. They also did not want to get involved in another war because the country was still recovering from the Great Depression. However, after the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7th 1941, the United States immediately got involved in the war by declaring war on Japan.
After a series of victories in the Pacific, Japan began to lose their islands in the Pacific. However the Japanese still would not surrender even after they were conquered by the Allies who moved methodically from island to island. After several attempts to stop Japanese aggression, Harry Truman, the president of the United States at the time, decided to drop an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima hoping that it would bring an end to Japanese aggression. However, it was not until the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, the Japanese agreed to surrender. The bombs killed approximately more than two hundred thousand people and the radiation affected countless lives of the residents of the regions.
The United State’s involvement in the Korean War was another important foreign policy that it divided the Korean Peninsula into two different countries. In order to prevent Communism from spreading, the United State decided to fight with South Korea against when North
Two important American foreign policies which affected the lives of millions were Harry Truman’s use of atomic bomb to end the Second World War and the United States’s involvement in the Korean War. During the first few years of World War II, the United States chose to remain neutral because the American people weren’t very happy with their involvement in the First World War. They also did not want to get involved in another war because the country was still recovering from the Great Depression. However, after the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7th 1941, the United States immediately got involved in the war by declaring war on Japan.
After a series of victories in the Pacific, Japan began to lose their islands in the Pacific. However the Japanese still would not surrender even after they were conquered by the Allies who moved methodically from island to island. After several attempts to stop Japanese aggression, Harry Truman, the president of the United States at the time, decided to drop an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima hoping that it would bring an end to Japanese aggression. However, it was not until the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, the Japanese agreed to surrender. The bombs killed approximately more than two hundred thousand people and the radiation affected countless lives of the residents of the regions.
The United State’s involvement in the Korean War was another important foreign policy that it divided the Korean Peninsula into two different countries. In order to prevent Communism from spreading, the United State decided to fight with South Korea against when North