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- He was able to take action against Guatemalan president, Arbenz by saying Arbenz was supported by communists.
- Stuck to the "Two China's" policy which said the US would support nationalist Jiang Jieshi as opposed to the communist Mao Zedong.
- Eisenhower instructed Diem, a catholic, to stop elections in South Vietnam as a result of fear of communism victory in the elections.

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- He was seen as "soft" on communism as a result of their underestimating of  the communist threat, the Soviet Union successfully testing a nuclear bomb, and the Soviet winning China over to the communist side.
- "At the Postdam Conference in July 1945, Truman said the US would only agree to the Soviet Union having reparations from the eastern zone of Germany- which was mainly agricultural and therefore poorer- along with 25 percent of the machinery from the three western zones, if the USSR sent in return 60 percent of the value goods received from the West, in the form of goods and raw materials (especially coal)."

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- He pursued legislation to lower taxes, protect the unemployed, increase the minimum wage, and energize the business and housing sectors.
- JFK focused on enforcing the civil rights laws that existed instead of creating new ones. As a result, his stance on civil rights became controversial.

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- His main goals were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
- Created the idea of "The Great Society".
"The most dramatic parts of his program concerned bringing aid to underprivileged Americans, regulating natural resources, and protecting American consumers."
- Poured vast amounts of money into fighting inequalities in education.

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- Main parts of his foreign policy included withdrawing from the Vietnam War and reaching a detente state.

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- He wanted to decrease the dependency on oil of the US. The problem was so severe that the US consumed one quarter of all Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries oil production in 1976.
- Congress passed the Emergency Natural Gas Act which authorized the national government to allocate interstate natural gas.

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- His 1980 campaign focused on keeping the government out of people's lives but not so much to where people were completely dependent from the government.
- Two major programs: tax reductions and budget cuts.
- During Reagan's presidency, the recession of the 1970s happened and unemployment rose to 11 percent and inflation began to occur.

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- Armies from the US, Britain, France, and Japan gave supplies to the opponents of the Bolsheviks and they saw this as a capitalist attempt to destroy their revolutionary socialist experiment.
- After the Bolsheviks won the revolution, the US denied the new Soviet government.
- This event showcased the obvious differences in ideology between Wilson and Lenin.

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Capitalist leaders were willing to allow right-wing dictatorial leaders to emerge if that means that communism will be suppressed. For example, both Britain and France gave political and military backing to Jozef Pilsudski's undemocratic and anti-semitic regime in Poland.

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- Joseph Stalin attempted to convince Britain and France to join the fight against Nazi Germany. They both refused to become involved.
- As a result, the Soviet Union decided to accept the non-aggression pact. It was supposed to last 10 years, but Nazi Germany attempted to invade the Soviet Union before this time.
- FDR believed Nazi Germany could be worse that the communist Soviet Union and he believed that if the United States helped the Soviet Union, then they would possibly abandon the idea of creating a world full of Communism.

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TRUMAN DOCTRINE
- The Truman Doctrine's purpose was to contain the Soviet Union's threat.
- President Truman gained support by exaggerating the Soviet threat and by claiming there were harsh differences between democracy and communism.
MARSHALL PLAN
- "As well as giving aid to Greece and Turkey, Congress decided to help revive the economies of Western European states by means of US credits and the revival of German economy."
- The plan was seen as an attempt to weaken Soviet control of Eastern Europe by both the USSR and US.

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- As a result of brinkmanship the Test-Ban Treaty was enacted.
- Although the Cold War continued, the tensions between the US and USSR did not reach extremely high levels as it did before.
- First step in stopping the nuclear arms race (although the arms race did not stop).

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- The belief that if South Korea fell to the communists then the rest of Asia would follow, putting the Near East and even Europe under threat.

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- In the late 1960s, several factors caused the US to move towards a state of detente (relaxation of tensions).
Factors included: international relations, move away from nuclear war, and improve relationship with the USSR and Cuba.

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- Both of these leaders were in charge at the time of the arms race.
- Soviet Union took a toll as a result of the arms race because they could not keep up with the US.

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CHILE
- During the 1964 election, the United States did not want Salvador Allende to be elected because they feared Allende would threaten US economic and business interests there and potentially give the USSR another foothold in Latin America (the other being Cuba).
- Evidence that suggests the CIA attempted to stop Allende from becoming president was the shooting of Chilean Chief General Schneider.
- In 1971- 72, the CIA was increasingly seen in Chilean politics through the 'economic destabilisation and warfare'.
- On September 11 1973, a coup was launched, headed by General Pinochet to overthrow Allende.
CUBA
- "With Cuban exiles already flying bombing missions from Florida and firing sugar-cane fields, Castro began to accuse the US of plotting the return of Batista. In fact from late 1959, the CIA was making use of Cuban exiles and hatching plans to disrupt the Cuban economy and destabilize Castro's government."
- In March 1960, the CIA persuaded Eisenhower to approve the training of an invasion force of right-wing Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro.