According to the text authors, in the 1950s, “the United States became

According to the text authors, in the 1950s, “the United States became identified with unpopular, undemocratic, and intolerant right-wing regimes” in the Third World. Why?

What will be an ideal response?

ANSWER
In the 1950s, Americans generally defined world peace as the absence of communism and the existence of order. A foreign policy based on that view accepted right-wing dictatorships because they were at the same time anticommunist and capable of maintaining order.