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Book Documents on Germany  1944 1961

Download or read book Documents on Germany 1944 1961 written by United States. Department of State. Historical Office and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany  1945 1955

Download or read book American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany 1945 1955 written by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays by German and American historians discusses key issues of US policy toward Germany in the decade following World War II.

Book Foreign Relations of the United States

Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imagining Vietnam and America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Philip Bradley
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2003-06-19
  • ISBN : 0807860573
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Imagining Vietnam and America written by Mark Philip Bradley and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950, Mark Bradley fundamentally reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the twentieth century. Among the first Americans granted a visa to undertake research in Vietnam since the war, Bradley draws on newly available Vietnamese-language primary sources and interviews as well as archival materials from France, Great Britain, and the United States. Bradley uses these sources to reveal an imagined America that occupied a central place in Vietnamese political discourse, symbolizing the qualities that revolutionaries believed were critical for reshaping their society. American policymakers, he argues, articulated their own imagined Vietnam, a deprecating vision informed by the conviction that the country should be remade in America's image. Contrary to other historians, who focus on the Soviet-American rivalry and ignore the policies and perceptions of Vietnamese actors, Bradley contends that the global discourse and practices of colonialism, race, modernism, and postcolonial state-making were profoundly implicated in--and ultimately transcended--the dynamics of the Cold War in shaping Vietnamese-American relations.

Book Press Releases

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States Department of State
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book Press Releases written by United States Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Relations of the United States

Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Relations of the United States

Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Disarmament to Rearmament

Download or read book From Disarmament to Rearmament written by Sheldon A. Goldberg and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War II, the Allies were unanimous in their determination to disarm the former aggressor Germany. As the Cold War intensified, however, the decision whether to reverse that policy and to rearm West Germany as a bulwark against the Soviet threat led to disagreements both within the US government and among members of the nascent NATO alliance. The US military took the practical view that a substantial number of German troops would be required to deter any potential Soviet assault. The State Department, on the other hand, initially advocated an alternative strategy of strengthening European institutions but eventually came around to the military’s position that an armed West Germany was preferable to a weak state on the dividing line between the Western democracies and the Soviet satellite states. Sheldon A. Goldberg traces the military, diplomatic, and political threads of postwar policy toward West Germany and provides insights into the inner workings of alliance building and the roles of bureaucrats and military officers as well as those of diplomats and statesmen. He draws on previously unexamined primary sources to construct a cogent account of the political and diplomatic negotiations that led to West Germany’s accession to NATO and the shaping of European order for the next forty years.

Book Learning to Love the Bomb

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  • Author : Sean M. Maloney
  • Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-07
  • ISBN : 1612342477
  • Pages : 611 pages

Download or read book Learning to Love the Bomb written by Sean M. Maloney and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Learning to Love the Bomb, Sean M. Maloney explores the controversial subject of Canada's acquisition of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Based on newly declassified Canadian and U.S. documents, it examines policy, strategy, operational, and technical matters and weaves these seemingly disparate elements into a compelling story that finally unlocks several Cold War mysteries. For example, while U.S. military forces during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis were focused on the Caribbean Sea and the southeastern United States, Canadian forces assumed responsibility for defending the northern United States, with aircraft armed with nuclear depth charges flying patrols and guarding against missile attack by Soviet submarines. This defensive strategy was a closely guarded secret because it conflicted with Canada's image as a peacekeeper and therefore a more passive member of NATO than its ally to the south. It is revealed here for the first time. The place of nuclear weapons in Canadian history has, until now, been a highly secret and misunderstood field subject to rumor, rhetoric, half-truths, and propaganda. Learning to Love the Bomb reveals the truth about Canada's role as a nuclear power.

Book Power Rules

Download or read book Power Rules written by John S. Duffield and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed account of the evolution of NATO’s conventional force posture from the beginning of the alliance through the dramatic events of the early 1990s, based largely on recently declassified U.S. and British documents.

Book Hierarchy amidst Anarchy

Download or read book Hierarchy amidst Anarchy written by Katja Weber and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the underlying basis for state participation in cooperative international structures.

Book Replacing France

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  • Author : Kathryn C. Statler
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2007-06-22
  • ISBN : 0813137322
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Replacing France written by Kathryn C. Statler and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2007-06-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using recently released archival materials from the United States and Europe, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s. Acting on their conviction that American methods had a better chance of building a stable, noncommunist South Vietnamese nation, Eisenhower administration officials systematically ejected French military, economic, political, bureaucratic, and cultural institutions from Vietnam. Kathryn C. Statler examines diplomatic maneuvers in Paris, Washington, London, and Saigon to detail how Western alliance members sought to transform South Vietnam into a modern, westernized, and democratic ally but ultimately failed to counter the Communist threat. Abetted by South Vietnamese prime minister Ngo Dinh Diem, Americans in Washington, D.C., and Saigon undermined their French counterparts at every turn, resulting in the disappearance of a French presence by the time Kennedy assumed office. Although the United States ultimately replaced France in South Vietnam, efforts to build South Vietnam into a nation failed. Instead, it became a dependent client state that was unable to withstand increasing Communist aggression from the North. Replacing France is a fundamental reassessment of the origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam that explains how Franco-American conflict led the United States to pursue a unilateral and ultimately imperialist policy in Vietnam.

Book The Korean War

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  • Author : William Stueck
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1997-07-07
  • ISBN : 1400821789
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book The Korean War written by William Stueck and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-07 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first truly international history of the Korean War argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III. Stueck draws on recently available materials from seven countries, plus the archives of the United Nations, presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomacy of the conflict and a broad assessment of its critical role in the Cold War. He emphasizes the contribution of the United Nations, which at several key points in the conflict provided an important institutional framework within which less powerful nations were able to restrain the aggressive tendencies of the United States. In Stueck's view, contributors to the U.N. cause in Korea provided support not out of any abstract commitment to a universal system of collective security but because they saw an opportunity to influence U.S. policy. Chinese intervention in Korea in the fall of 1950 brought with it the threat of world war, but at that time and in other instances prior to the armistice in July 1953, America's NATO allies and Third World neutrals succeeded in curbing American adventurism. While conceding the tragic and brutal nature of the war, Stueck suggests that it helped to prevent the occurrence of an even more destructive conflict in Europe.

Book Europe  including United Kingdom

Download or read book Europe including United Kingdom written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Department of State Bulletin

Download or read book The Department of State Bulletin written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: