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The Ford Foundations Of The Cold War

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The Cold War was a time of competition, vast technological improvements, and even philanthropic efforts. Foundations such as the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, who were based in the United States, started expanding to reach the third world. Post-World War I and World War II the United States did not want to get involved in another world war. The foundations that expanded to reach the third world, were interested in preventing communism from taking over as the form government in those countries. The Ford Foundation’s president Paul Hoffman, was especially concentrated on working with India, one of the poorest countries on the world. Hoffman and his colleagues recognized a similarity in Indian to China before it was a communist

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