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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Predicate Object
instanceOf American liberalism
Cold War ideology
political ideology
associatedWithInstitution Americans for Democratic Action
Congress of Industrial Organizations
associatedWithMovement Americans for Democratic Action
anti-communist left
associatedWithParty Democratic Party (United States)
associatedWithPerson Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Harry S. Truman NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 programs
Marshall Plan
NATO
Truman Doctrine
civil rights movement


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