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Complete this chart:
President
Truman
Foreign Policies
Eisenhower
- Middle Road
Kennedy
- New Frontier.
Johnson
- Greatly invested in the Vietnam - did not so much focus on Latin - became involved in Vietnam
war - 500,000 American troops America like the past presidents was because the US was against
in South Vietnam and no end in and rather he focused on
communism and that is what
sight to the conflict
Vietnam to make sure that the
the north was promoting.
north and the south did not
- tried to initiate a peace treaty completely destroy each other. - OAS cooperated with the
but it only went into affect after
removal of a Castro-style
he left office
government undermined its
credibility (Was seen as a
- Johnsons policy toward Latin
puppet to the US)
America became increasingly
interventionist, culminating
- Hostile relations returned.
with the deployment of U.S.
soldiers to Santo Domingo to
prevent another communist
takeover in the Caribbean.
Nixon
- Practiced Detente(open
relations)
Ford
Carter