HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Third World Quarterly, Esli
11 Apr 2016
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Source analysis #2 hist221: liberation: a militaristic and ideological cold war battle. Liberation was an unifying objective for american foreign policy in the cold war and is defined through it"s value in free society and democratic liberty. Through the rhetoric employed in describing the red scare of communism, the american government took a hardline approach towards the soviet union. The strenuous and continuous american militaristic intervention in vietnam displayed the struggle for ideological liberation. Liberation is not a process, but a goal and result of american foreign policy in the cold war era and is achieved through brutal persistency in military action with the intent of ideological change. Persistent military action became a process in which american foreign policy employed in reaching the goal of liberation. Nsc68, an american foreign policy document focusing on. Soviet relations, engaged in strong rhetoric that contrasted the restrictive nature and danger of the soviet union to a free american society1.
