Consider the priorities of President Truman and General MacArthur in the Korean War. Define the strategy of each. Which is the sounder strategy in your mind? Why? Would you have fired MacArthur as President Truman did? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
President Truman's original objective in Korea was to contain North Korea--push its forces back out of South Korea, then reestablish the 38th parallel as the border between the two Koreas. He temporarily abandoned that objective in favor of General MacArthur's "liberation" strategy to free North Korea from its Communist dictator and unify the two Korea's under a democratic government. Truman abandoned the 'liberation" strategy when the Chinese Communists entered the war, and fired MacArthur when the general publicly criticized his commander-in-chief's readoption of the containment strategy.
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A. a German offensive threatened to capture Moscow. B. Mexico agreed to a military alliance with Germany. C. Russia asked the Allies to call for an armistice. D. German U-boats torpedoed three American ships. E. the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.
Describe the criticism that was leveled at FDR's New Deal in 1935, and summarize how and with what programs Roosevelt responded.
What will be an ideal response?
By 1900, Argentina had linked to the global economy primarily by __________.
a. encouraging tax-free investments b. exporting agricultural products c. exporting inexpensive manufactured goods d. providing inexpensive labor to industrialized nations
Theodore Roosevelt's reform philosophy was closest to that of
a. muckraking journalists. b. the Gospel of Efficiency. c. the Knights of Labor. d. the Social Gospel Movement.