Cold War: US Values In The Middle East

It was the foundation of the Roosevelt Corollary and it gave America the power to give loans to other countries.

As stronger nations exercise their control over weaker ones, the United States try to prove their authority, power and control over weaker nations seeing them as unable to handle their own issues thereby, imposing their ideology on them. And if any of these weaker nations try to resist, then the wrath of the United States will come upon them. In overthrow the author Stephen Kinzer tells how Americans used different means to overthrow foreign government. He explains that the campaign & ideology of anti- communism made Americans believe that it was their right and historical obligation to lead forces of good against those of iniquity. They also overthrew foreign government, when economic interest coincided with their ideological ones

In Kinzer’s book, Overthrow, we are taken through the events of United States foreign intervention. We see how the United States plays a direct role in the overthrowing of leaders of countries who are not doing as the U.S. pleases. The U.S. goes about overthrowing in some very similar ways and some differing ways. However, as a whole, the U.S. shows many similar actions and reasons behind their attempts at overthrowing another country’s leader. The U.S. is trying to greater their sphere of global influence and they are using military force when needed in all the overthrow attempts. Although, the U.S. does have a slightly different reason from Part One and Part Two, and that reason is changed from being anti-colonial to being anti-Communist. Lastly, the U.S. also uses a new agency that was not at their disposal in Part One of Kinzer, and that is the CIA.

The role of the Middle East has been very crucial to the United States, especially after WWII. The U.S. had three strategic goals in the Middle East and consistently followed them throughout various events that unfolded in the region. First, with the emergence of the cold war between the Soviet Union and the U.S., policymakers began to recognize the importance of the Middle East as a strategic area in containing Soviet influence. This also coincides with the U.S. becoming increasingly wary of Arab nationalism and the threat it posed to U.S. influence. Secondly, the emergence of the new Israeli state in 1948 further deepened U.S. policy and involvement in the region while also creating friction between the U.S. and Arab states which were

economy. For instance, one of the main things it did was pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression. The U.S. needed supplies for war and needed many soldiers to fight for them. Those needs were fulfilled by the massive amount of unemployed people in the Great Depression. Unemployed people signed up in the army and got work in factories producing war goods not just for the U.S. but for the other countries allied with the U.S. fighting in World War 2.

On the road to becoming one of the strongest and powerful countries in the world, we knew we needed to do something soon. An era where imperialism was a European act the United States realized it would be important to economic success.

Brook Adams asserts the influence that the United States had on the world, citing multiple nations and areas, such as Nicaragua, Mexico, West Indies, and Asia, that have been taken over by the country (Doc 9). Land ownership greatly influence the economic influence of the United States. The US government was able to back a Nicaraguan revolution on the agreement that the US would receive the land needed to build the Panama Canal. This revolution created unrest within the region, however the US was able to create a canal that would make trade both faster and cheaper. By buying and taking over land, the US was able to increase economic prosperity.

Independence of the United States in 1776 to present day, the United States was and is the face of democracy. The United States takes pride in doing everything possible in order to maintain its democracy, but at times uses this facade to justify the looting of resources, such as oil. The international role of the United States should be to help (not force) countries maintain democracy by aiding democratic leaders rather than ignoring oppressive rulers, but should not use the guardian of democracy title to bad use which in turn stuns economic growth for other countries. The United States takes pride in its guardian of democracy role throughout history. The underlying reason for this role is primarily the spread of communism to weaker countries by corrupt and

United States foreign policy from 1890-1914 was principally guided by economic motives. The main goal was to be seen as a world power. However by becoming a world leader, the United States had no choice than to have economical gains in the process. Expansion of U.S. territory and embracing the imperialistic way of foreign affairs are crucial to being seen as a world power. Because so many other world powers were constantly expanding and gaining territories in Africa, the U.S. knew they had to do the same in order to “keep up” with other world powers.

The doctrine of United States foreign policy has changed significantly during and after the Cold War, as the United States redefined its foreign policies during each of these eras. Although inarguably United States promotes liberal democracy, how it goes about doing so currently, could not be necessarily categorized as a liberal approach. During the Cold War United States had a more liberal approach towards promotion of democracy. Yet this approach has since changed as it did not emphasize enough the importance of other states materialistic needs and its impact on their international behavior, thus leading United States to adopt a more constructivist perspective toward its foreign policy.

The United States has influenced many nations in the world throughout history. Some of the ways the U.S. has been able to dominate poor countries are with military action and corporate activities that allowed the United States to influence their governments. Since the United States extends its power with the previously mentioned methods, it is recognized as an imperialist nation. The United States has specifically demonstrated imperialistic forces in Latin America. The effects that the United States’ imperialism had on Latin American economies and politics were negative since it brought violence and caused the poor to struggle even more. When the United Sates government did not like policies that Latin American presidents were creating, they would take military actions to force American ideologies into Latin American countries’ governments by installing puppets into their governments. Generally, these countries would have flourished economically without the United States, but since the U.S. became involved with the countries’ policies, their economies have weakened because the U.S. wants the benefits of controlling countries’ resources without being responsible for the people who reside there. This pattern of the United States’ imperialistic behavior has been demonstrated many times in Latin America.

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The oil abundant Middle East country Iran was about to be turned into a communist country due to the Iranian President Mosadegh who supported communism. U.S. helped anti-communism parties by supporting them with finances and eventually exiled President Mosadegh. United States aided the Middle East countries with weapons to oppose against Soviet Union, so that the United States would have access to oil rich Middle East

As we approach the next Presidential election the topic of American foreign policy is once again in the spotlight. In this paper, I will examine four major objectives of U.S. foreign policy that have persisted throughout the twentieth century and will discuss the effect of each on our nation’s recent history, with particular focus on key leaders who espoused each objective at various times. In addition, I will relate the effects of American foreign policy objectives, with special attention to their impact on the American middle class. Most importantly, this paper will discuss America’s involvement in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War to the anticipated fulfillment of these objectives—democracy,

faced from the Soviets in the mid to late 1940’s as that logically drives the foreign policy process. This is best captured in American Orientalism by Douglas Little and the chapter on U.S. policy towards Egypt (1949-1956) by Peter Hahn in The Middle East and the United States. The U.S. was faced with the possibility of an expansionist and dangerous Soviet Russia that stood to challenge the West in the Middle East, a serious threat to the access to Persian Gulf oil, which among other things, would hurt the European and Japanese recovery efforts. This claim against the Soviets seemed reasonable enough through the eyes of U.S. policymakers since the Soviets were already in Iran and continually positioning for control of the Dardanelles from Turkey. Furthermore, any strategic thought experiment could easily conclude that the Soviets would gain a huge advantage in an actual war if they could gain control over the Persian Gulf area; therefor they would most likely try to attempt it militarily, diplomatically, or both. After adding in additional crisis going on such as the Greek civil war earlier and the Korean War later, it is clear to see the line of thought leading to Truman’s doctrine of U.S. national security relying on the containment of the Soviet Union in the Middle East.