Enlarging the EU would bring democratic institutions, protect human rights, and would end the divisions in Europe which would benefit the member stated who would be bringing peace to the region. The more countries that were involved within the EU, the more successful and significant it would be. It was not only the economy of others which would be an advantage to member states but also the links that other states had. Former communist states had links with Russia which the EU could use for diplomatic link as Russia would not join. The USA and Russia were in favour of the expansion because eastern states would be involved in western politics and their systems.
Churchill believed that in order to guarantee the security of Czechoslovakia, Europe should have held Germany back and Britain and France should have worked together as an alliance. George F. Kennan, an American Secretary of State during the cold war also disagreed with the Munich Agreement. Kennan thought that Chamberlain and Daladier only agreed with Germany’s proposal only because they didn’t want to participate in war. Chamberlain and Daladier wanted to maintain the peace in Europe. (Document 6) As written in The Origins of the Second World War, by A.J.P.
Both classes had disagreements with the Articles of Confederation. Federalists say that the articles were weak and ineffective because the state governments was too weak to apply laws and ordered for a national government instead. We Anti-federalists however believed that the Articles of Confederation was a good plan and that there should not be a government more powerful than the state governments. Believing that state governments should have more power compared to the national government was one of the big reasons why the anti-federalists supported the Articles of Confederation. How about the U.S constitution, what factors were held to point out?
However some historians would say that Britain was too complacent when it came to foreign policy, and as soon as they believed they had reached satisfactory targets, they wouldn’t go any further, and so risk harming British interests. Yet other historians would also suggest that at the time, Britain had no choice but to be sometimes complacent due to economic factors, and at the time, their policy making decisions were not ultimately harmful to interests, but best suited to the current international climate. British Foreign policy in the 1920’s was dominated by the France and German tensions. Britain and France disagreed on most issues. French leaders were particularly concerned about Germany’s efforts to undo the treaty of Versailles.
This is because the whole reason Vietnam got involved in the first place was to aid France. Truman wanted to support France because he believed that Vietnam was important for the success of the Cold War as they didn’t want the Communists to expand. So even though there was a clear reason for why Truman should support France there is no clear reason why Eisenhower should stay involved in Vietnam. If he had removed troops earlier, then there would have been no US- Vietnam War. Also the war is Eisenhower’s War because Eisenhower changed tactics since Truman.
This makes his argument that the EU will be disconcerting for the US. Basically, as the GE- Honeywell merger story illustrates, the EU’s power comes from its ability to meticulously regulate all business intending to benefit from the huge regional market. Basically, if any company wants to profit, it has no choice but to comply. It seems that Reid avoids this whole issue because there is little evidence in support of a Europe that has sound economic ideals upon which to build
How did American influence or dictate the outcome of World War Two though its unofficial involvement as a neutral nation, through its role in Europe and through its role in the Pacific? America did not want to get involved in the second world war. America was a neutral nation at the time. Though through Cash and Carry, Lend-Lease and gaining military power America had a role in World War Two while maintaining neutrality. Americans did not want to enter the war because they thought they had enough to deal with on their own such as the Great Depression.
This was because the new middle class that had emerged in the 'German states', from industrialisation, wanted political representation, and felt that it could only be achieved in a united Germany. The Congress of Vienna wanted to make sure that no country could take over Europe in the way that France did in the early 1800s, it aimed to do this by allocating more land to Prussia and creating a 'barrier' that would block any attempts of French expansion and also war from Russia in the east. The German Confederation divided Germany into thirty-nine states, as Napoleon did during the French occupation. A reduction in the number of German states may seem like a move towards nationalism and in turn unification, however it was in fact a direct move against it, as can be seen in the second amendment of the confederation. This is known as 'particularism', the principle of leaving each state in a federation free to govern itself and promote its own interests.
Although it involved many positive aspects, it was strongly rejected by America, both the government and the citizens. The Congress found it to be an attachment of war for our countries, spend more money and slowly destroy our economy, and it pulled us into European affairs. This war without country seemed at that time very dim. Coming out of a war and feeling unstoppable, maybe Wilson was only wise enough to see that war is not something to be used unless absolutely needed. To protect the right of mankind, and lives of American and allied lives.
A Cold War was not fundamentally necessary if the USA was to become a global superpower, it was merely a by-product of the USA’s actions in order to establish global supremacy. When the USA put forward the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, they knew it would create some sort of division between East and West because the West would accept American loans whereas the communist states in the east would be forced by Stalin to decline American loans and therefore create a barrier between the two sides of Europe. What the Americans did not intend to do was create war with the USSR, their actions were merely for economic gain, whereas the USSR saw the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine as purely aggressive and a threat towards communism, hence the start of the Cold War. Furthermore, by expanding it’s economic influence in Eastern Europe, the USA would also gain military power. This would further enhance the policy of containment and would help to prevent the spread of communism into the west.