Items tagged "Monroe": 4

President Lyndon B. Johnson doesn’t look so well. Though he is appealing to a portrait of Monroe for advice, it doesn’t look like the President is finding what he seeks. In fact, Johnson was elevating American involvement in the Vietnam War, a very unpopular war with the public. He tried to use the policies in the Monroe Doctrine to…

Yes Jim, They’ve Made Alot of Changes “Yes Jim, They’ve Made Alot of Changes,” President Lincoln laments to President James Monroe. Here L.D. Warren is commenting on the fact that John F. Kennedy is considered somewhat lax in upholding U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, laid out in the Monroe Doctrine, which stressed no European or outside…

Are the policies upheld by the Monroe Doctrine buried under Red Cuba? Bruce Russell seems to think so. After the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, many Americans thought that the U.S. did not take as much action as they should to prevent Soviet Communism from taking a hold in Cuba. As part of the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. foreign policy concerning…

At the end of WWII, Stalin was turning his attentions West in an attempt to challenge democracy there. By assuming the leadership in organizing Western defense, the United States, here represented by the capitol building, provided an effective answer to this challenge.

The Atlantic Pact was a defensive alliance among states, but it was very…