How did the United States redefine national security after 1945?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: The ideal answer should include:



  • At the end of World War II, U.S. policymakers were determined to revive the global capitalist economy.


  • American prosperity and freedom, they believed, depended on a world system of free trade.


  • From this perspective, American national security was seen to be at stake almost everywhere around the globe.


  • The primary threat to that security came from the Soviet Union.


  • The danger lay in Soviet encouragement of revolutions that rejected market economies and individualist ethics.

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