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When Japan seized Manchuria in 1931 the U.S. refused to recognize the conquest. American sympathy was strongly on the side of the Chinese, thanks to Christian missionaries and publicists such as [[Pearl Buck]] and [[Henry Luce]]'s [[Time]] magazine. When Japan launched a full-scale war in China in 1937, the U.S. funded the Chinese resistance, supplies arms, and even sent in an air force--the "Flying Tigers" under General [[Claire Chennault]]--to fight the Japanese invasion. President Roosevelt refused to compromise with the Japanese, and cut off their oil supplies in 1941 so they could no longer make war. They responded with a desperate attack on the United States and the British Empire that ended in total disaster for Japan. At wars ended the U.S. took over Japan with the goal of systematically creating a democratic nation, and succeeded under the leadership of General [[Douglas MacArthur]].
When Japan seized Manchuria in 1931 the U.S. refused to recognize the conquest. American sympathy was strongly on the side of the Chinese, thanks to Christian missionaries and publicists such as [[Pearl Buck]] and [[Henry Luce]]'s [[Time]] magazine. When Japan launched a full-scale war in China in 1937, the U.S. funded the Chinese resistance, supplies arms, and even sent in an air force--the "Flying Tigers" under General [[Claire Chennault]]--to fight the Japanese invasion. President Roosevelt refused to compromise with the Japanese, and cut off their oil supplies in 1941 so they could no longer make war. They responded with a desperate attack on the United States and the British Empire that ended in total disaster for Japan. At wars ended the U.S. took over Japan with the goal of systematically creating a democratic nation, and succeeded under the leadership of General [[Douglas MacArthur]].
===Cold War===
===Human rights in the Soviet Union===
===Carter's over-emphasis===
President [[Jimmy Carter]] made human rights central to his foreign policy. This had the effect of ratcheting up pressure on the Soviet Union, especially after the [[Soviet-Afghan War|invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.]] However it also led to a disaster in [[History of Iran|Iran]], where Carter allowed pro-American Shah to collapse because he had a poor record on human rights. Americans were horrified to discover see the Shah's militant replacements were far more brutal regarding human rights, and were violently anti-American as well. The net result of Carter's policies was a loss of human rights by millions of friends of the U.S.
===Reagan's policies===
===Clinton and Bush===
==Post World War II==
==Post World War II==