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In four pages this paper examines how these Democratic and Republican Presidents based their foreign policy around fighting Communism, even if it meant denying the liberties and freedoms of citizens in the Dominican Republic and Guatemala. Sources include Morton Keller’s America’s Three Regimes, Eric Foner’s The New American History, and Alan Brinkley and Davis Dyer’s The American Presidency. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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that are regarded as being in the best interest of all Americans, regardless of ethnicity and socioeconomic status (Keller 204). The foreign policies of Democratic Presidents usually tend to
be more pacifistic and diplomatic oriented. Conservative Republican Presidents, on the other hand, believe in terms of domestic policy that less government intervention is more in the promotion of
American individualism, but will aggressively apply military force if any part of "the Free World" they perceive to be in danger of a Communist takeover (Keller 204). By the
end of the Second World War, the United States was the worlds preeminent superpower, and a President could covertly decide to change another countrys government with the power "to enforce
his decision and shape the lives of people in distant - and to most Americans, unknown - nations" (Foner 375). Historically, always been a close link between American domestic
and foreign policies, and this was especially evident when the Cold War ideological battle between the United States and the Soviet Union began in 1947 (Foner 167, 172). In
fact, some historians maintain that the Cold War influenced postwar American domestic and foreign policies because it provided a "unifying force" or an us against them mentality that usually enabled
the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoting the cause of liberty (Keller 222). The Cold War "anchored Americas response to virtually every foreign
policy issue" (Foner 172). This became quite evident in the mid-1960s when President Lyndon Johnson wanted to take a strong
global stance against Communism while at the same time pass his sweeping Great Society package of social reforms at home. But with an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam in
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