POL 373 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Cocom, Marshall Plan
22 Dec 2017
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Eisenhower wanted to use trade as an alternative to the marshall plan. Pushed rtaa renewal through republicans by saying it"d prevent war and spread of communism. +focused on how a stable and growing japan was critical to eastern defense. The need to assist japan and europe in recover helped change the united states trade policy. Making sure military sensitive goods didn"t reach the ussr was important to containment. There was a vital north-south dimension in the cold war. Developing countries became things the united states and the ussr competed for. The united states believed the economic model developing countries chose was important to united states security. Developing states need(ed) their economies to grow faster than their populations. The united states hasn"t experienced a genuine social revolution so it wasn"t sympathetic. The united states consistently intervened in latin america because it didn"t want communism to social revolution in the developing countries to get a foothold in the western hemisphere.
