What were Americas major post World War 2 goals?
The Marshall plan, a plan to get Japan and Germany up and running so they would not be able to be ripe pickings for totalitarianists again. Usually, as in the case of Rome, victorious nations sow salt into the soil of the vanquished, as the Romans did to Carthage. The US, instead, forced upon these vanquished people American values regarding individual economic, and religious freedom and productivity– in other words, free-enterprise capitalism and democratic-republic operating ideals. Oddly enough (for leftists), their life-styles and GDP improved while other vanquished nations conquered by the Soviets and the Chinese Communists suffered greatly. The Cold War immediately followed WWII, and it was really a Third World War. Once the objectives of reconstructing a free Japan and West Germany were accomplished, goals were strictly limited to stopping global nuclear warfare, and the US went on a haphazard defense strategy that obviously didn’t work very well in bringing economic hope, stab
