... , Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, believes, he "God-given rights of the individual- and the "universality- of this doctrine for two hundred years is illustrated by a century of literal human slavery and effective disenfranchisement of Blacks or another century, genocidal assaults on the native population, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos at the turn of the century, of millions of Indochinese, of some 200,000 Central Americans in the past ... Union and the United States. The Truman doctrine is a, statement made by President Harry Truman in March 1947 that ...

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... was to build up strong anti- Communist countries and it helped American industry by creating markets for American goods. How convenient for America. In the words of Dean Acheson "The great thing which creates purchasing power is people if the people can develop their own countries, they will become an increasing market for all goods including our own"2 Also Western Europe appeared open to ... the world's policeman. "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed majorities or by outside pressures. The fr...

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