Why Did the United States Back Away from Pressuring Its

question 68

Multiple Choice

Why did the United States back away from pressuring its European allies to grant self-government to colonies in Asia and Africa?

• A) American diplomats valued nations like France more highly for their alliance in the European Cold War.
• B) Since the United States was expanding its own empire, it was losing the moral high ground against European colonial powers.
• C) American strategists reasoned that national independence in Asia and Africa was likely to benefit the Soviet Union more than the United States.
• D) Southern Democrats in Congress did not want to inspire civil rights campaigns at home by supporting national independence in Asia or Africa.

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