... a million signed pledges saying that they would refuse to serve in any war abroad. Polls of this time period suggested that 39 percent of college students were dead set against participating in any war, even if the country were invaded. America was at war with poverty and did not want to deal with any outside forces. Isolationism continued. American culture encouraged isolationism ... was inherently expansionist; the U.S. foreign policy should be to contain the Russians and communism. President Truman's advisor, Averill Harriman advised Truman that this policy was essentially do-nothing, ...

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... -$90 million dollars from the U.S. government within the first few years after the coup. That was $20-$30 million dollars more than the U.S. gave to all the rest of Latin America combined. Vietnam The Vietnam War was a war fought between 1964 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos, and in bombing runs over ... and former Sandinista allies The Reagan Administration waged a decade long war against the Sandinistas by arming, training and directing the Contras, killing nearly 50,000 people and wrecking the Nicaraguan economy in the process. In 1989 O...

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