HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Federal Housing Administration, Dodger Stadium, Covert Operation
14 Mar 2016
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Containment at home and abroad hist221 lecture notes. The american century and new concepts of space : us power in world, state in us, paterns of setlement and living. Today, we discuss containment : as naional security strategy, as poliical project, as cultural imperaive. New naional security council speciically created to advise president personally policy paper: 1950: only circulated in the highest realism of government. Contexts: chinese civil war; soviet atom bomb, korea. Advocated the rapid building up of the poliical, economic, and military strength of the free word. : global and acivist foreign policy, massive build up of convenional and nuclear arms, expansion of covert acion and propaganda, public relaions. Top secret report, declassiied in 1975: document that guides us foreign policy was kept secret in the highest way possible, even kept from congress, korean war, atomic bombs, us-su relaions.
