Cold War liberalism

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Cold War liberalism was a mid-20th-century American political ideology that combined support for social welfare and civil rights at home with a strongly anti-communist, interventionist foreign policy.

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Cold War liberalism canonical 7

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American liberalism
Cold War ideology
political ideology
associatedWithInstitution Social Democrats, USA
surface form: Americans for Democratic Action

Congress of Industrial Organizations
associatedWithMovement Social Democrats, USA
surface form: Americans for Democratic Action

anti-communist left
associatedWithParty Democratic Party
surface form: Democratic Party (United States)
associatedWithPerson Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
President Harry S. Truman
surface form: Harry S. Truman

Hubert H. Humphrey
surface form: Hubert Humphrey

John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Reinhold Niebuhr
Walter Reuther
challengedBy New Left
Vietnam War opposition
neoconservatism
declinedDuring late 1960s
emergedDuring Cold War
hasCoreValue anti-communism
civil liberties
internationalism
liberal democracy
social reform
hasGeographicScope United States of America
surface form: United States
hasGoal defend liberal democracy against communism
expand social welfare while maintaining capitalism
hasIdeologicalPosition anti-totalitarian
center-left
hasStanceOnEconomy pro-mixed economy
pro-welfare state
hasStanceOnForeignPolicy pro-NATO
pro-containment
hasTemporalContext mid-20th century
influencedBy President Franklin D. Roosevelt
surface form: Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Harry S. Truman
surface form: Harry S. Truman

Marshall Plan
New Deal liberalism
Truman Doctrine
containment doctrine
opposesIdeology McCarthyism
Soviet-style socialism
communism
far-left radicalism
isolationism
supportsPolicy Keynesian economic policy
U.S. global leadership
civil rights legislation
containment of communism
interventionist foreign policy
regulated capitalism
social welfare programs
strong national defense
supportsProgram Great Society
surface form: Great Society programs

Marshall Plan
NATO
Truman Doctrine
civil rights movement

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Kennedy administration mainIdeology Cold War liberalism
New Left opposed Cold War liberalism
Two Concepts of Liberty associatedWith Cold War liberalism
The Open Society and Its Enemies influenced Cold War liberalism
Henry M. Jackson ideology Cold War liberalism
Sidney Hook influenced Cold War liberalism
Sidney Hook politicalIdeology Cold War liberalism