World After 1945

Within two weeks of Ronald Reagan taking office, defence spending rose by over $30 billion. It increased by 50 percent during his first term as the President.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization was found on 4th April 1949. America, Canada, England, France, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherland, Norway, Portugal and Ireland came together in Washington where they had exchange of thoughts and founded this treaty.

In 1973, the US agreed to withdraw its troops from South Vietnam and signed a treaty with the Soviet Union called SALT I, limiting the number of nuclear weapons for the first time.

The Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. Eisenhower singled out the Soviet threat in his doctrine by authorizing the commitment of U.S. forces “to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independence of such nations, requesting such aid against overt armed aggression from any nation controlled by international communism.

The main goal of the Marshall Plan was to rebuild European economies with a recovery program.

The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

United Nations central mission is the maintenance of international peace and security. Hence, the UN lays a special emphasis on resolving conflicts through peaceful methods.