h. Pearl Harbor was attacked and Americans died, which was more thanenough for us to start our trek into Internationalism and intervention. After World WarII, the United States began its journey as world leader. It was now time for America tohelp other nations rebuild and start its hate of Communism. George Marshall, an ArmyGeneral for the United States came up with the Marshall Plan, one that would provideextensive help for other nations in Europe by providing loans for economic recovery. Later America plunged itself into a war with North Korea to protect its neighboring SouthKorea, this was possible through the United Nations Security Council and although manyAmericans lost their lives, we created a bond with the South Koreans. The next set offoreign aid came when John F. Kennedy was President. Kennedy not only began thecounterinsurgency force called the Green Berets to stop communism, but also invadedCuba and posed the question of war with Russia. Then came one of the biggestinterventions in Americas history of foreign policy. In the late 1950’s the United States, under John F. Kennedy sent 16,000 Americanmilitary “advisers” to Vietnam. The southern based republic of Vietnam was indesperate need of help against the Viet Cong, which was the Communist funded NorthVietnamese. This was actually the beginning of two wars. The first was a strugglebetween Vietnamese nationalists and the French colonial regime which was aided by theUnited States at the time. During this second war the United States stepped in to take theplace of France against the northern based Communists and the southern insurgents. TheUnited States felt it had to get involved to stop this Communist attack, if it were tohappen that the Communists won, we thought that the “Domino theory” would go intoaffect. Basically what this theory said was, that if one southeastern country were to fall to the Communists the rest would fo...
