Identify the basic assumptions of the containment policy. Describe how the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and NATO reflect these assumptions
What will be an ideal response?
The containment doctrine assumed the Soviet Union was aggressively antidemocratic and anticapitalist. But it also assumed that Soviet expansion could occur only if the West showed weakness, so the United States had to adopt a policy to prevent any expansion of Soviet territory or communist influence. The Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and NATO were economic and military aid policies designed to check Soviet expansion and to remove the internal sources of communist insurrection.
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A) Frederick Douglass B) T. Thomas Fortune C) Emanuel Fortune D) Isaiah Montgomery
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a. each year brought fewer accounts of bribery in state or national election contests b. election fraud only occurred in cities with large immigrant populations c. the independent thinkers were inclined to see corruption, even if they exaggerated the facts d. some of them were found guilty of bribery
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Confucius believed that it was possible to restore social harmony in all EXCEPT which of the following ways?
a. Superiors should provide a good moral example to their inferiors. b. People should meditate on nature as the key means to restore their sense of balance with the world. c. Elites should receive a broad liberal arts education as the key to moral improvement. d. Superiors should cultivate benevolence or nobility of heart as the essential ingredient of a peaceful society.