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WWI set the world up for yet another war, however, this wasn't just any war seen before, because now with the threat of communism taking over other parts of the world, along with new powerful weapons on the rise, the cold war became a great war of fear and power, lasting multiple decades. Truman responds to the incoming threats of the soviets and communism in the famous Truman doctrine. At first he explains how the US needs to help the countries of Europe that have been destroyed from war, and how Greece was prevented from reconstructing themselves due to the soviets. he also says the US needs to help countries like Turkey to promote democracy in other countries before the soviets reach them and implement their communist ideals. Trumans requests troops be sent to these two nations and also send substantial monetary aid to help them reconstruct. As US foreign affairs always are, its important to recognize the self interest in this doctrine, while it is important to help rebuild other nations, Truman had a greater concern with putting the democratic influence on these nations to prevent the USSR from gaining more speed.

similarly the Monroe doctrine was used to

spread US influence on other continents

before other world powers could reach them,

marked by the same type of

self interest.

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In WWI there was a similar anti German hate in America

like there was during WWII

Executive order 9066 was FDR allowing the secretary of War, a member of his cabinet, the power to create military zones. This was actually ordered with the intended purpose of, post pearl harbor, creating internment camps for US citizens who are racially of axis power background, specifically the Japanese on the west cost. Following pearl harbor there was a huge scare that many Japanese Americans, even though they were actually still Americans who considered themselves Americans, were spies for Japan and conspiring against the United States of America dude. about 112,000 Japanese Americans during WWI were shipped off to interment camps which were basically just concentration camps or prisons for these innocent families with horrible conditions. at the end of the war upon their release many of them had homes destroyed and were left with nothing to return to. several years later, when obviously it was mch too late, Gerald Ford gave a speech apologizing to the Japanese Americans on the behalf of America.  

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"...a date that will live in infamy..." FDR's most famous quote and possibly one jof the most famous solemn quotes of US history, speaks in respect to the men in pearl harbor who hopelessly lost their lives under the bombardment from Japanese planes the day before. This revealed that Japan had been lying to the US when they spoke about keeping peace in diplomatic negotiations. Because of the Japanese offensive which was quickly taking over the entire pacific, he asks congress to declare war on japan.

tears of the Arizona, oil still spilling out of ship sunk in pearl harbor

the Gettysburg address by Lincoln

was another very moving and famous

speech by a US president after

another day that lives in infamy

in many peoples hearts

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Wilsons 14 points were at the end of WWI where he devised a plan to keep peace between the nations of the world so that WWI was a war to end all war. His goal was to have 14 rules that every nation would abide by, such as free trade, free seas, no secret traties, and cutting back on armies. The tenth point was the formation of the league of nations. which would be a peace keeping organization that every nation was to join so that disputes between countries could be settled in a civil manner before war had to ever occur. these points were ultimately unsuccessful because the US never was able to join the league of nations due to the senate not passing the original 14 points, also the other courntires still had too much hate for Germany to be able to easily comply with the points

the united nations were formed after WWII and were a much

more successful verson of what the LN was supposed

to be

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Roosevelt's famous anecdote "Only thing we have to fear is fear itself" greatly represents the whole of his inaugural address. Most if it was a response to the American people's concerns about the new economic crises of the 30s. He promises that he will help to take up the burden of fixing the problems of the crises, as long as the American people also come together to fix the situation they are in. He essentially says he will be their leader, if they offer him their trust and support. He blames the crisis on greed and big banks and thinks that the government should be the one to step in in order to fix the problems at hand.

Lincolns address at Gettysburg is similar to FDRs inaugural
because it is solemn due to it being a response to difficult times
and unfortunate things in the past, in addition to proving
how both Lincoln and FDR gained the trust of the
American people due to them being the strong man during
harsh times when the people needed them

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The Kellogg Briand peace pact was a policy signed by virtually every world power in the late 1920's which essentially outlawed war a national policy completely. It said that any nation that didn't follow the terms present in the pact would then lose the benefits also present in the pact. It was also the hope of the pact that the nations who had not initially signed it would later vote to join the nations who had. It was the Unitied states responsibility to hold up the original treaty, and add new nations to the pact. Eventually there was a total of forty nations who had joined the pact, within a year of its initial signing.


the peace pact was similar to wilsons 14 points in its
idealistic ways which involve there never being war in
assuming everybody will comply to it

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Hippies protesting Vietnam draft

Charles Schneck

During WWI, a draft took place that the US would have enough people to fight a war of attrition. Due to the Espionage Act of 1917, there was nothing anybody could do about the horrible draft. Schenck agreed that the draft was bad and tried to make propaganda and petitions to remove it. This violated the act which said it was illegal to interfere with the war effort, making him in trouble with the law. In a supreme court case, he defended himself by saying the constitution gave him free speech. However, Oliver Holmes stated that because what he was saying was going against the common good of the nation, he didn't have his free speech. This shows the governments greater control over the people in war time.