HIS 72B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Premarital Sex, Zoology, Executive Order 9835
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Relationship between foreign policy and domestic policy. Containment: us foreign policy of containment against communism. Truman doctrine of 1947 was a key piece of foreign policy. Not allowing the expansion of communism into other nations. Britain announces it will no longer offer financial aid or continued economic support to greece. Greece was in the midst of an internal war against an insurgence of communism. Us wants to make sure that foreign economies are robust so that they can sell us products overseas. If greece/turkey succumbed to communism, these markets would no longer be available to buy from the us. The truman doctrine told congress that the world had to choose between alternative ways of life being freedom and tyranny. Establishment of nato, korean war are founded in this rhetoric. Federal employee loyalty program (1947): said civil servants who had, in any time of their lives, criticized their government, could be subject to disciplinary action.
