Rise of Global US Exam #1

Good Wilson Stuff

• Reason over force

• railroad worker reform, childs labor rights, federal trade commission

• Wants us to bring reason and democracy to the world

• Scientific Peace

• 14 points: open diplomacy, free oceans etc

Bad Wilson Stuff

• Takes it too far wants to create league of nations but senate won’t sign because they don’t want US tied up in international conflicts to go to bat for

• Treaty of Versailles reveals other countries aren’t ready for just reason and they just wanted to punish germany not get world peace

• Went to war not for US but for saving everyone

Hubris

Toughness: America is tough enough to fight and win any battle it picks

Reason: America is rational and people are rational enough to act that way not just off grudges

Johnson (Hubris)

• 1964 civil rights act, low unemployment (gets so confident at home by pushing his stuff and decides to take it international)

• Didn’t just want containment, wanted to eradicate communism

• by 1967, got 450,00+ troops in Vietnam, after OPLAN ‘65 Johnson really starts to attack

• NCS 68

• Tet offensive and Vietcong attacks US Embassy causing huge distrust in American war, looses support

• Giant anti vietnam protests

• Taxs and inflation now jacked up from spending, proves America doesn’t have unlimited power and might to fight everything

Hoover and isolationism (after wilson)

• Mostly all focused on pacifism and isolationism and domestic stuff

• However, gives 5 bil to Belgium to allieve suffering from German stuff

• into reason and efficiency

• Unlike Wilson didn’t believe world peace existed or that it was America’s job to make it happen

• 1929 Military disarmament after war to protect from more war and arms race

FDR

• Influeced by TR, tried to look at stuff from international perspective, tough from polio

• Charisma could engage in public well

• Internationalism, forming allainces for the war (lend lease act) before real involvment

• Wanted US to be a force after the war

• Started out with Neutrality Acts

• Atlantic Charter + 4 Policeman (US, GB, Russia, China)

• Actual ally, learned from Wilson mistakes kinda a combo

• Tehran and Yalta give much more power to Russia (seats on UN and allow Germany to be divied up)

Truman

• No nonsense, straightforward

• Cut military budget by 15%

• Says US must contain Communism everywhere and will help all nations with this (Truman Doctrine)

• Sees Russia vs US is only thing in world

• Marshall Plan: build up Europe to prevent communism spread (12+ bil in aid)

• NATO created to form pact against Soviet Union

• Korean War where US immediately stepped in

• Joseph McCarthy + Red Scare (eventually led to his demise)

Wilson + Russia

• Wanted at first to work with Russia to create free world but then bolshevism

• Worried about the communism wanted to contain but were allie during WWI but pissed off US bc kerensky won’t pay back us, lenin pulls out of war which hurts US and allies

• Wilson tries to help fight off bolsheviks by sending aid but bolsheviks take over

• They want deal with US saw them as allies, wanted to look up to them in terms of industrialization but Wilson won’t make a deal with Bolsheviks on principle

FDR + Russia

• Knew he needed to work with Stalin for WWII and to defeat Axis

• Cautioulsy respected Stalin while Stalin really respected him and made palace acceisilbe at conferences

• Gave russia stuff at Yalta and Tehran ( control ov eastern Europe to appease him for Atlantic Charter and 4 policeman)

• Seemed to appease stalin and not see the huge threat they opposed

Truman + Russia

• Much more suspicious, flipped view from FDR and Stalin didn’t like working with him as much

• Mad about the communism and no free electons in EAstern Europe

• Truman doctrine condems it and says they will work against it

• NATO:

• Marshall Plan: 12 bil to build up europe