... by the spread of liberalism in Guatemala in 1954, and exemplified by the American reaction. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles believed the spread of liberalism in Guatemala, a country with a population slightly over 3 million, to be "so dangerous that the American state could not ignore it" (Document B). Americans were so fearful of a communist foothold in Latin America that a statement ... yielding to fears in such a childish manner. A true leader, Eisenhower directs his people to think rationally rather than to follow the hysterical culture that seems to be engulfing a nervous Amer...

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... top 0.1 percent held 34 percent of all the savings. The top 0.5 percent of Americans owned 32.4 percent of the net wealth of the entire population, the greatest such concentration of wealth in the nation's history. The Great Depression also revealed that workers and consumers by and large received too small a ... 1929. To add to the troubles, also came the whole issue of the stock. Only about 4 million Americans owned any stocks, out of a total population of 120 million. Many of these stockholders were brought into the market through the discovery of "credit" in the form of margin accoun...

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... . While the preference at that time was for British migrants, others were accepted on the understanding that they should shed their cultures and languages and be assimilated into the host population so that they would rapidly become indistinguishable from it. The policy effectively excluded non-European immigration as in 1905 a dictation test was introduced given the reason it was to ensure ... Australia's responsibilities as a member of the international community. In 1966 the Liberal-Country Party Government began dismantling the 'White Australia' policy by permitting the immigration o...

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... economy; they were afraid of the expansion of communistic ideas, and most of all, they were afraid of a nuclear holocaust and destruction. In the post-war years, the U.S and its population reached a higher and thriving economic status and did not want to lose these capitalistic privileges to communism; President Eisenhower promoted huge projects which would aid the growing economic status of ... way in which Eisenhower's administration handled this deadly situation; by spending lots of money. In historical statistics, we can note that the percentage of government money used had more tha...

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