By the time World War II ended, most American officials agreed that the best defense against the Soviet threat was a strategy called “containment.” In his famous “Long Telegram,” the diplomat George Kennan (1904-2005) explained the policy: The Soviet Union, he wrote, was “a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no permanent modus vivendi [agreement between parties that disagree].” As a result, America’s only choice was the “long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.” “It must be the policy of the United States,” he declared before Congress in 1947, “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation…by outside pressures.” This way of thinking would shape American foreign policy for the next four decades.
The answer to the
question stated above is letter <span>b.the Pentagon Papers
<span>The Pentagon Papers</span> which is officially
titled as <span>United States –
Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense</span>, is a U.S. Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military
involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
The
papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scale of the Vietnam
War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam,
and Marine Corps attacks,
none of which were reported in the mainstream media.
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The south was mainly agricultural, cultivating cotton in some form was most people's entire livelihood, creating sort of a cultural divide from the north. plus, the menial and arduous labour in the south was incredibly appealing for slave owners, but this didn't happen in the north where factories and mills were everywhere and staffed by non enslaved people. cotton united the two by the south growing it and the north turning it into textiles and other finished products. together they had quite a good system since each part was able to specialize
