Kennedy’s biggest goal in foreign policy was to avoid war
Puritans in Mary's colonial community read solely for the purpose of better understanding God's divine guidance and the teachings of the Bible. In Mary Rowlandson's narrative, her experience of captivity and redemption<span> represents the Puritan doctrine that suffering and obedience will be rewarded with deliverance.</span>
The reconstruction plan, developed at a meeting of the participating European states, was drafted on June 5, 1947. It offered the same aid to the Soviet Union and its allies, but they refused to accept it,[8][9] as doing so would allow a degree of US control over the communist economies.[10] In fact, the Soviet Union prevented its satellite states (i.e., East Germany, Poland, etc.) from accepting. Secretary Marshall became convinced Stalin had no interest in helping restore economic health in Western Europe.<span>[11]</span>