Achievements of the Military V Term Paper

The U.S. foreign policy of the period between 1930 and 1956 validated the efficacy of diplomacy over war, just as it does today.

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To jaw, jaw is always better than to war, war," is a famous quotation of Winston Churchill, the war-time British PM. Coming as it did from someone who knew all there is to know about making war and peace and a politician who can hardly accused of being a supporter of "appeasement" -- the quote carries immense weight

Revisionist' historians such as Charles a. Beard and Charles C. Tansill accuse FDR of lying to and treacherously deceiving the American nation by publicly supporting isolationism while secretly maneuvering to enter the war.Compared to the 4 million Korean casualties in the Korean War, 2.3 million Japanese died in World War II, including the victims of the Atomic bombs. (Cumings)

Diplomacy or War.....