According to Graham Allison book, Nuclear Terrorism, only 5 percent of daily cargos into the U.S are screened where every day 30,000 trucks, 6500 rail cars and 140 ships deliver over 50,000 cargo containers into the United States. This rarely involves physical inspection which may not detect nuclear weapons and fissile materials.
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There wasn't a victory.the Europeans exhausted themselves. The US only prolonged the conflict for about a year, at which time the Europeans thought that an armistice was the only way to not perish. The real victory came in 1919, when President Wilson went to Versailles to hold court and chop up the map of the world in the image of a racist, imperialist, white, Western European/American hegemony, complete with “reparations” that assured the flow of gold primarily out of Germany, and primarily into the US. Wilson was able to hold the dominant position at Versailles because the US was one nation that was not utterly spent, in terms of men and material and resources.
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The Vietnamese suffered Great Depression in the 1930s. This led to fall in the prices of rubber and rice, rise in rural debts, unemployment and rural uprisings. Since the provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh got the roughest end of this deal and had an old radical tradition, whenever the colonial system came under pressure, these regions were the first to rise up in rebellion. Hence, they were referred to 'electrical fuses' of Vietnam.
<u>The U.S. policy of containment, was a policy that used many techniques to stop the spread of communism. This was an effect of the cold war, and it was used against the Soviet Union. </u>
THE U.S. SUPPORTED THIS PRACTICE BY:
<em>Wanting to stop the spread of communism, and having the Soviet Union gain more power.</em>
THE U.S. TOOK ACTION BY:
<em>-Containing communism, so that it's influence would not affect other countries. This lead to the creation of NATO which was to include itself in the border states of the world and prevent them from turning communist.</em>
<em>-The policy was adopted by President Harry Truman. This was also part of the "free the people movement." From any outside pressure, or influence.</em>
<em>-The United States agreed to help both countries to avoid the possibility that the Soviet Union would lead them to communism. ( Greece and Turkey) and they paired with them. </em>
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