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The Free World Colossus From Yalta To Vietnam American Foreign Policy In The Cold War Revised Edition
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Book Synopsis The Free World Colossus. From Yalta to Vietnam American Foreign Policy in the Cold War. (Revised Edition.). by : David Horowitz
Download or read book The Free World Colossus. From Yalta to Vietnam American Foreign Policy in the Cold War. (Revised Edition.). written by David Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Free World Colossus by : David Horowitz
Download or read book The Free World Colossus written by David Horowitz and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 1965 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Yalta to Vietnam by : David Horowitz
Download or read book From Yalta to Vietnam written by David Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Yalta to Vietnam by : David Horowitz
Download or read book From Yalta to Vietnam written by David Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Universe Unraveling by : Seth Jacobs
Download or read book The Universe Unraveling written by Seth Jacobs and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical considerations. Laos's landlocked, mountainous terrain, they hold, made the kingdom an unpropitious place to fight, while South Vietnam-possessing a long coastline, navigable rivers, and all-weather roads-better accommodated America's military forces. The Universe Unraveling is a provocative reinterpretation of U.S.-Laos relations in the years leading up to the Vietnam War. Seth Jacobs argues that Laos boasted several advantages over South Vietnam as a battlefield, notably its thousand-mile border with Thailand, whose leader was willing to allow Washington to use his nation as a base from which to attack the communist Pathet Lao. More significant in determining U.S. policy in Southeast Asia than strategic appraisals of the Laotian landscape were cultural perceptions of the Lao people. Jacobs contends that U.S. policy toward Laos under Eisenhower and Kennedy cannot be understood apart from the traits Americans ascribed to their Lao allies. Drawing on diplomatic correspondence and the work of iconic figures like "celebrity saint" Tom Dooley, Jacobs finds that the characteristics American statesmen and the American media attributed to the Lao-laziness, immaturity, and cowardice-differed from the traits assigned the South Vietnamese, making Lao chances of withstanding communist aggression appear dubious. The Universe Unraveling combines diplomatic, cultural, and military history to provide a new perspective on how prejudice can shape policy decisions and even the course of history.
Book Synopsis The Columbia Guide to the Cold War by : Michael Kort
Download or read book The Columbia Guide to the Cold War written by Michael Kort and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War was the longest conflict in American history, and the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century. Since its recent and abrupt cessation, we have only begun to measure the effects of the Cold War on American, Soviet, post-Soviet, and international military strategy, economics, domestic policy, and popular culture. This reference contains an extensive narrative overview of key events and issues, and also features a concise dictionary of terms, institutions, and people, a condensed chronology, and an annotated resource section listing books, articles, films, novels, websites, and more than forty CD-ROMs on Cold War themes and topics.
Book Synopsis Condemned to Repeat it by : Sheldon R. Anderson
Download or read book Condemned to Repeat it written by Sheldon R. Anderson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condemned to Repeat It addresses six historical myths that underwrote U.S. containment policy during the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet empire seemed to confirm the wisdom of U.S. containment policy and these lessons of history as universal truths that still influence U.S. foreign policy thinking today. A European states system based on realism, balance-of-power, raison d'etat, and great power diplomacy did not keep a "long peace" from 1815 to 1914. The punitive Versailles Treaty with Germany did not cause the rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II. Erroneous analogies to Neville Chamberlain's failed attempt to avert war at Munich in 1938 worked its way into virtually every debate on the use of force to stop communist aggression during the Cold War. Franklin Roosevelt did not "give away" Eastern Europe to Stalin at the Yalta Conference in 1945. The conventional version of Yalta as a deal to divide Europe is fictional. U.S. containment policy did not create a stable bipolar world and, like the nineteenth-century balance-of power system, preserve another "long peace" for forty-five years after World War II. Ronald Reagan's military build-up and ideological crusade against the Soviet Union did not cause the fall of communism in 1989. Mikhail Gorbachev gave up the Soviet Empire. The Reagan "victory school" version of the end of the Cold War has given American leaders the dubious belief that the United States alone possesses the power to create a liberal democratic, free market world order. Condemned to Repeat It appeals to anyone with an interest in the legacy of the Cold War, including undergraduate students.
Book Synopsis The Myth of the Good War by : Jacques R. Pauwels
Download or read book The Myth of the Good War written by Jacques R. Pauwels and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2002-10-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh and provocative look at the role of the USA in World War II. It spent four months on the nonfiction bestseller lists in Europe when it was first published in Belgium in 2000.
Book Synopsis The Free World Colossus by : David Horowitz
Download or read book The Free World Colossus written by David Horowitz and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 1965 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis America's Half-Century by : Thomas J. McCormick
Download or read book America's Half-Century written by Thomas J. McCormick and published by . This book was released on 1995-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Incisive, eminently readable... McCormick reminds his readers of the unfashionable truths of our time: American domination of the postwar order, the weakness and conservatism of the Soviet Union, the gratuitousness of the nuclear arms race." -- The Nation
Book Synopsis Origins, Evolution, and Nature of the Cold War by : Joseph Laurence Black
Download or read book Origins, Evolution, and Nature of the Cold War written by Joseph Laurence Black and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Past written by Sidney Fine and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Open Door Era by : Michael Patrick Cullinane
Download or read book Open Door Era written by Michael Patrick Cullinane and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Open Door, the most influential U.S. foreign policy of the twentieth centuryIn 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an aOpen Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure of Hays diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the central component of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. Just as visions of aManifest Destiny shaped continental expansion in the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make the case for a world asafe for democracy, Franklin Roosevelt developed it to inspire the fight against totalitarianism and imperialism, and Cold War containment policy envisioned international communism as the latest threat to a global system built upon peace, openness, and exchange. In a concise yet wide-ranging examination of its origins and development, readers will discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century.Key FeaturesUncovers the ideological wellspring of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth centuryPresents debates over U.S. foreign policy, including the aWisconsin School critique of the Open Door as a mechanism of informal empireReveals both the consistency of U.S. foreign policy thinking and offers a deeper context to critical foreign policy decisionsContextulises the roots of contemporary U.S. policy
Book Synopsis The Cold War Begins by : Lynn Etheridge Davis
Download or read book The Cold War Begins written by Lynn Etheridge Davis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical issue in the origins of the Cold War—the development of Soviet—American conflict over Eastern Europe from 1941 to 1945—is the subject of Lynn Etheridge Davis's book. Disagreeing with those writers who argue that conflict arose from the determination of the United States to obtain economic markets in Europe or from imprecise assessments of Soviet security interests, the author describes how the United States made an initial commitment to the Atlantic Charter principles in 1941, then continued to promote the creation of representative governments in Eastern Europe without clearly identifying American interests or foreseeing the consequences of these actions. Using recently released documents of the Departments of State and War, Professor Davis explains how the views of U.S. officials on postwar peace precluded approval of Soviet efforts to establish a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe through the imposition of Communist regimes. She describes how American officials interpreted Soviet actions as intent to expand into Western Europe and how the subsequent undermining of Allied cooperation around the world led to the Cold War. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis From Valta to Vietnam: American Foreign Policy in the Cold War by : David Horowitz
Download or read book From Valta to Vietnam: American Foreign Policy in the Cold War written by David Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis America, Russia, and the Cold War by : Walter LaFeber
Download or read book America, Russia, and the Cold War written by Walter LaFeber and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1972 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy by : Randall Bennett Woods
Download or read book J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy written by Randall Bennett Woods and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abridged biography of Fulbright, focusing on his career as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and critic of the Vietnam War.
