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Book The Documentary History of the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidency The Berlin Crisis Part 1 September 1953 April 1959 Prelude to the Geneva meeting of Forei9gn Ministers

Download or read book The Documentary History of the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidency The Berlin Crisis Part 1 September 1953 April 1959 Prelude to the Geneva meeting of Forei9gn Ministers written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

Download or read book The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower written by Dwight David Eisenhower and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final set of volumes (Vol 18-21 sold separately) of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contain 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961. Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final set of volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contains 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961. In these years Eisenhower worked hard to hold the focus of American national politics on the two major objectives he had set for his presidency in 1952: to sustain the policy of containment without precipitating a war with the Soviet Union and to reduce the role of the federal government in U.S. domestic affairs. In both cases, events at home and abroad intruded—diverting attention to immediate problems, endangering the peace, and forcing the White House to devote most of its leadership to the crises of the day. As president during this tense period, Eisenhower maintained an extensive and revealing correspondence with prominent individuals as well as with personal friends. These letters, together with the occasional entries made in his diary, shed considerable light upon the major national concerns of the 1950s. The volumes also include private and secret correspondence previously unavailable to scholars. Some of these items have been only recently declassified, and many appear here in print for the first time. Taken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders.

Book Documentary History of the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidency

Download or read book Documentary History of the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidency written by Nancy Beck Young and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eisenhower 1956

    Eisenhower 1956

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  • Author : David A. Nichols
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-03-08
  • ISBN : 1439146993
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Eisenhower 1956 written by David A. Nichols and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping tale of international intrigue and betray-al, Eisenhower 1956 is the white-knuckle story of how President Dwight D. Eisenhower guided the United States through the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. The crisis climaxed in a tumultuous nine-day period fraught with peril just prior to the 1956 presidential election, with Great Britain, France, and Israel invading Egypt while the Soviet Union ruthlessly crushed rebellion in Hungary. David A. Nichols, a leading expert on Eisenhower’s presidency, draws on hundreds of documents declassified in the last thirty years, enabling the reader to look over Ike’s shoulder and follow him day by day, sometimes hour by hour as he grappled with the greatest international crisis of his presidency. The author uses formerly top secret minutes of National Security Council and Oval Office meetings to illuminate a crisis that threatened to escalate into global conflict. Nichols shows how two life-threatening illnesses—Eisenhower’s heart attack in September 1955 and his abdominal surgery in June 1956—took the president out of action at critical moments and contributed to missteps by his administration. In 1956, more than two thirds of Western Europe’s oil supplies transited the Suez Canal, which was run by a company controlled by the British and French, Egypt’s former colonial masters. When the United States withdrew its offer to finance the Aswan Dam in July of that year, Egypt’s president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the canal. Without Eisenhower’s knowledge, Britain and France secretly plotted with Israel to invade Egypt and topple Nasser. On October 29—nine days before the U.S. presidential election—Israel invaded Egypt, setting the stage for a “perfect storm.” British and French forces soon began bombing Egyptian ports and airfields and landing troops who quickly routed the Egyptian army. Eisenhower condemned the attacks and pressed for a cease-fire at the United Nations. Within days, in Hungary, Soviet troops and tanks were killing thousands to suppress that nation’s bid for freedom. When Moscow openly threatened to intervene in the Middle East, Eisenhower placed American military forces—including some with nuclear weapons—on alert and sternly warned the Soviet Union against intervention. On November 6, Election Day, after voting at his home in Gettysburg, Ike rushed back to the White House to review disturbing intelligence from Moscow with his military advisors. That same day, he learned that the United Nations had negotiated a cease-fire in the Suez war—a result, in no small measure, of Eisenhower’s steadfast opposition to the war and his refusal to aid the allies. In the aftermath of the Suez crisis, the United States effectively replaced Great Britain as the guarantor of stability in the Middle East. More than a half century later, that commitment remains the underlying premise for American policy in the region. Historians have long treated the Suez Crisis as a minor episode in the dissolution of colonial rule after World War II. As David Nichols makes clear in Eisenhower 1956, it was much more than that.

Book Eleanor Roosevelt and the Anti Nuclear Movement

Download or read book Eleanor Roosevelt and the Anti Nuclear Movement written by Dario Fazzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Eleanor Roosevelt’s involvement in the global campaign for nuclear disarmament. Based on an extensive multi-archival research, it assesses her overall contribution to the global anti-nuclear campaign of the early cold war and shows how she constantly tried to raise awareness of the real hazards of nuclear testing. She strove to educate the general public about the implications of the nuclear arms race and, in doing so, she became for many a trustworthy anti-nuclear leader and a reliable voice of conscience.​

Book Herbert Hoover and Dwight D Eisenhower

Download or read book Herbert Hoover and Dwight D Eisenhower written by T. Walch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together core selections from and analysis of material documenting the uneasy collaboration between Herbert and Eisenhower, this collection incisively uses primary sources to illuminate the 1952 Republican nomination fight, the second Hoover Commission, and other key episodes during the Eisenhower presidency.

Book Documentary History of the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidency President Eisenhower Operation CANDOR and the Atoms for Peace Speech April 1953 May 1954

Download or read book Documentary History of the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidency President Eisenhower Operation CANDOR and the Atoms for Peace Speech April 1953 May 1954 written by Nancy Beck Young and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documentary History of the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidency The Eisenhower administration and the Brown v Board of Education decision 1954 1955

Download or read book Documentary History of the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidency The Eisenhower administration and the Brown v Board of Education decision 1954 1955 written by Nancy Beck Young and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: