IB History HL - Paper 3, History of the Americas, Cold War, Political Developments in Latin
America - Historian perspectives/quotes
Cold War:
It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples Truman doctrine
who are resisting attempted subjugation
Truman Doctrine was an ideological crusade Lippman
It is better to have a strong regime in power than a liberal George Kennan
government
McCarthyism was able to extend further the already dangerously Irving Louis Hollowitz
enshrined split between American culture and American politics
Cold War Americans were mindless timid conformists Reisman
Americans all too easily confuse nationalism with communism Walter LaFaber
Americans... lashed out at radicals, alleged subversives and other Patterson
groups that can be blamed for complex problems
NSC-68 provided the blueprint for the militarisation of the cold war May
Saw the Korean War as a critical turning point in the Cold War Matray
[communist] challenge to the entire structure of post-war US intervention in Korea - John Lewis
collective security Gaddis
Motivated by anti-communism and containment US intervention in Korea - Michael Dockrill
and Michael Hopkins
Motivated by economic imperialism US intervention in Korea - Robert Wood
Motivated by Japan economic revival US intervention in Korea - Leffler
Willing and able to respond vigorously at places and with the Dulles
means of [our] own choosing
The (Guatemalan) intervention represented the end of the 'good Tulio Helperin Donghi
neighbour'
CIA involvement did little to alter the course of events as Arbenz Gaddis
was unpopular anyhow
The USA was containing communist aggression and expansion in Herring
Vietnam, and had little choice but to do so
, Markets and raw materials in SE Asia motivated US interest. Kolko
Vietnam became important because a communist, nationalist
revolution there posed a threat to the global capitalist system
Stalemate - USA continued and escalated commitment not to win, Gelb and Betts
but to avoid being seen to lose by American voters.
Mindset of Truman administration led to this tragic and misguided Byrnes
war
Put all the blame on Johnson for escalation. Logevall
Johnson's prime motivation was to demonstrate the strength of Grow (Dominican Republic but also
the US generally)
The USA continued involvement in Vietnam to avoid being seen Gelb
to lose.
Commitment trap - Inherited commitment to Vietnam made it many historians
harder for the next president to exit without the US and its leader
losing face.
In all aspects, the Vietnam War was the quintessential Cold War Michael David Martignago
conflict
Johnson was both the master domestic tactician and the Horrowitz
misguided military tactician
US collusion in the coup against Diem was the US government's Hammer
greatest mistake and the single most important cause of full-scale
American involvement
"Victory would therefore have been possible if only our political Kevin Boylan
leadership had sustained popular support for the war"
Vietnam was the most important reason for deterioration in Canadian historian J.M. Bumsted
relations. (between US and Canada)
Canada's branch plants were "making a packet out of the Canadian philosopher George Grant
demolition of Vietnam"
Canada's role in Vietnam was not that of neutral. Finkel
It represented an attempt to foster in LA, through a process of Williamson (Alliance for Progress)
peaceful reform, the democratic values that the USA itself
professed to live by.
[Kennedy's] unwavering determination to wage the Cold War led Rabe (Alliance for Progress)
him to compromise and mutilate grand goals for the hemisphere.
America - Historian perspectives/quotes
Cold War:
It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples Truman doctrine
who are resisting attempted subjugation
Truman Doctrine was an ideological crusade Lippman
It is better to have a strong regime in power than a liberal George Kennan
government
McCarthyism was able to extend further the already dangerously Irving Louis Hollowitz
enshrined split between American culture and American politics
Cold War Americans were mindless timid conformists Reisman
Americans all too easily confuse nationalism with communism Walter LaFaber
Americans... lashed out at radicals, alleged subversives and other Patterson
groups that can be blamed for complex problems
NSC-68 provided the blueprint for the militarisation of the cold war May
Saw the Korean War as a critical turning point in the Cold War Matray
[communist] challenge to the entire structure of post-war US intervention in Korea - John Lewis
collective security Gaddis
Motivated by anti-communism and containment US intervention in Korea - Michael Dockrill
and Michael Hopkins
Motivated by economic imperialism US intervention in Korea - Robert Wood
Motivated by Japan economic revival US intervention in Korea - Leffler
Willing and able to respond vigorously at places and with the Dulles
means of [our] own choosing
The (Guatemalan) intervention represented the end of the 'good Tulio Helperin Donghi
neighbour'
CIA involvement did little to alter the course of events as Arbenz Gaddis
was unpopular anyhow
The USA was containing communist aggression and expansion in Herring
Vietnam, and had little choice but to do so
, Markets and raw materials in SE Asia motivated US interest. Kolko
Vietnam became important because a communist, nationalist
revolution there posed a threat to the global capitalist system
Stalemate - USA continued and escalated commitment not to win, Gelb and Betts
but to avoid being seen to lose by American voters.
Mindset of Truman administration led to this tragic and misguided Byrnes
war
Put all the blame on Johnson for escalation. Logevall
Johnson's prime motivation was to demonstrate the strength of Grow (Dominican Republic but also
the US generally)
The USA continued involvement in Vietnam to avoid being seen Gelb
to lose.
Commitment trap - Inherited commitment to Vietnam made it many historians
harder for the next president to exit without the US and its leader
losing face.
In all aspects, the Vietnam War was the quintessential Cold War Michael David Martignago
conflict
Johnson was both the master domestic tactician and the Horrowitz
misguided military tactician
US collusion in the coup against Diem was the US government's Hammer
greatest mistake and the single most important cause of full-scale
American involvement
"Victory would therefore have been possible if only our political Kevin Boylan
leadership had sustained popular support for the war"
Vietnam was the most important reason for deterioration in Canadian historian J.M. Bumsted
relations. (between US and Canada)
Canada's branch plants were "making a packet out of the Canadian philosopher George Grant
demolition of Vietnam"
Canada's role in Vietnam was not that of neutral. Finkel
It represented an attempt to foster in LA, through a process of Williamson (Alliance for Progress)
peaceful reform, the democratic values that the USA itself
professed to live by.
[Kennedy's] unwavering determination to wage the Cold War led Rabe (Alliance for Progress)
him to compromise and mutilate grand goals for the hemisphere.
