Assignment

Assignment

Question 1

External Relations of the United States from the fifties

U.S. foreign policy after the war is characterized by four traditional tendencies and contradictory nature:

First Liberal internationalism: cooperation and joint problem solving.

Second Pragmatic Real politics (pragmatic: the facts / experiences of life accordingly) It is based on the idea of ??power and national interest.

Third Foreign political unilateralism (unilateral: one-sided).

Fourth Global nature of American interests: idea that any economic / political / military issue somewhere in the world, affecting U.S. interests and influence. President Roosevelt's idea was that of the U.S. as the world's policeman (Knell, 2003).

With that, the Marshall Plan \ the U.S. gave massive economic aid for Europe in particular, where there were now known as the victorious powers more often in East-West antagonisms. This degenerated into the so-called Cold War. In the course of example, the Soviet blockade of the jointly managed fell (Knell, 2003). The reasons for USA and the USSR quickly getting involved in Cold War after the 2nd World War can be explained in three ways:

First The United States and Europe wanted to defend themselves against the expansionism of the Soviet Union and communism.

Second The USSR wanted to save reversed by the U.S. foreign policy of the open door imperialism.

Third Structural problems and mistakes on both sides led to the hardening of the position (Knell, 2003).

The world power has been strengthened by the hard dollar, and soon after the war, the U.S. was the leading nation in the industrial sector. They produced about 60% of all industrial products in the world with an export share of about 30% and in 1953 they generated about 40% of world GDP. Thus, the United States had an important role in the world economy, which gave it the appropriate external power. A great influence would commit the United States to Germany, to an economic partner in Europe. After the 2nd World War above all, United States benefited from the process of technology, patents and other scientific evidence that they confiscated (Knell, 2003).

The Economic Recovery in the United States after World War II

The economic recovery in the United States after World War II, also known as the post-war economic boom, the long boom, the Keynesian era or the golden age of capitalism, was a period of prosperity, which in the mid-twentieth century was seen in the U.S. and other countries (Knell, 2003). It started immediately after the Second World War in 1945 and lasted until the economic crisis of the 1970s and the collapse of the Bretton Woods system. In a narrower sense, the post-war period in the U.S. dates back to 1945-1952 years, sometimes beginning of an era of Keynes include not by 1945, and by 1950-1951 years (Knell, 2003).

Question 2

The two historical periods that have been discussed above had major impact on America's current society, economy, politics and culture. This is said because of the fact that through the adaptation of the strategy of external relations of the United States from the fifties, the United ...