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Book The Marshall Plan Summer

Download or read book The Marshall Plan Summer written by Thomas Andrew Bailey and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Marshall Plan

Download or read book The Marshall Plan written by Benn Steil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.

Book The China Mission  George Marshall s Unfinished War  1945 1947

Download or read book The China Mission George Marshall s Unfinished War 1945 1947 written by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Economist Best Book of 2018 New York Times Book Review Editor’s Pick “Gripping [and] splendid.… An enormous contribution to our understanding of Marshall.”—Washington Post At the end of World War II, General George Marshall took on what he thought was a final mission—this time not to win a war, but to stop one. In China, conflict between Communists and Nationalists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. Marshall’s charge was to cross the Pacific, broker a peace, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III. At first, the results seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choice—one that would alter the course of the Cold War, define the US-China relationship, and spark one of the darkest-ever turns in American political life. The China Mission offers a gripping, close-up view of the central figures of the time—from Marshall, Mao, and Chiang Kai-shek to Eisenhower, Truman, and MacArthur—as they stood face-to-face and struggled to make history, with consequences and lessons that echo today.

Book The Most Noble Adventure

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Behrman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2008-08-12
  • ISBN : 0743282647
  • Pages : 4 pages

Download or read book The Most Noble Adventure written by Greg Behrman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces America's four-year diplomatic efforts to help rebuild post-World War II Europe, an endeavor that involved a thirteen-billion-dollar plan and was heavily influenced by political factors.

Book The Marshall Plan in Action Course

Download or read book The Marshall Plan in Action Course written by University of Vermont and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine

Download or read book The Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine written by George Capaccio and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of Soviet power prompted concern from the United States. President Truman asserted that the United States needed to prevent Communism from becoming stronger. His warning to Congress became known as the Truman Doctrine. When General George Marshall visited Europe, he feared that Europe's weak economy would encourage the growth of Communism. He established an initiative to provide economic support to rebuild Europe, which had been devastated by the war. This initiative was nicknamed the Marshall Plan. Congress was reluctant at first but ultimately approved the plan when Czechoslovakia became Communist in 1948. This book gives an in-depth discussion of European integration and the influence of Communism on Western Europe.

Book The Marshall Plan Lessons Learned for the 21st Century

Download or read book The Marshall Plan Lessons Learned for the 21st Century written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the historical, diplomatic, economic, and strategic aspects of the European Recovery Program (ERP) - popularly known as the Marshall Plan.

Book Bureaucracy  the Marshall Plan  and the National Interest

Download or read book Bureaucracy the Marshall Plan and the National Interest written by Hadley Arkes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marshall Plan has been widely regarded as a realistic yet generous policy, and a wise construction of the national interest. But how was the blend of interest and generosity in the minds of its initiators transformed in the process of bureaucratic administration? Hadley Arkes studies the Marshall Plan as an example of the process by which a national interest in foreign policy is defined and implemented. The author's analysis of the efforts to design the Economic Cooperation Agency demonstrates how the definition of the national interest is fundamentally linked to the character of the political regime. His account of the discussions in the executive branch of the government, the bureaucratic infighting, and the deliberations in Congressional hearings and floor debates also shows how, in the process of making decisions on administration and procedure, the bureaucracy itself affected the aims of the Plan. Originally published in 1973. 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 The Marshall Plan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Holm
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2016-11-10
  • ISBN : 1317426053
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book The Marshall Plan written by Michael Holm and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1948 and 1951, the Marshall Plan delivered an unprecedented $12.3 billion in U.S. aid to help Western European countries recover from the destruction of the Second World War, and forestall Communist influence in that region. The Marshall Plan: A New Deal for Europe examines the aid program, its ideological origins and explores how ideas about an Americanized world order inspired and influenced the Marshall Plan’s creation and execution. The book provides a much-needed re-examination of the Plan, enabling students to understand its immediate impact and its political, social, and cultural legacy. Including essential primary documents, this concise book will be a key resource for students of America’s role in the world at mid-century.

Book Our Finest Hour

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  • Author : Gregory A. Fossedal
  • Publisher : Hoover Press
  • Release : 2021-11-19
  • ISBN : 0817992030
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book Our Finest Hour written by Gregory A. Fossedal and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William L. Clayton was "the principal architect of American post-war foreign economic policy" (Newsweek), yet his seminal contributions to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Marshall Plan, and the Truman Doctrine have been largely ignored over the past four decades. This gap in the story of free-world cooperation is filled by Gregory Fossedal's vivid biography.

Book The Origins of the Marshall Plan

Download or read book The Origins of the Marshall Plan written by John Gimbel and published by . This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Marshall Plan  Fifty Years After

Download or read book The Marshall Plan Fifty Years After written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text focuses first on the impact of the Marshall plan on the organization of political and economic life in post-war Europe and how the plan was perceived in European public opinion. It then examines its role in the construction of European union and in the division of Europe. Finally, the book analyzes the debate about the economic impact of the Marshall Plan in the post-war economic "miracle" in Western Europe. The authors of these chapters are well-known historians, economists, and political scientists, whose original chapters derive from their work on post-war Europe.

Book The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans

Download or read book The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans written by Maria Fritsche and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US government launched the European Recovery Programme, otherwise known as the 'Marshall Plan', in order to save war-torn Europe from collapse in 1948. Yet while much is known about the economic side of the Marshall Plan, the extensive film campaign that accompanied it has been largely overlooked until now. The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans is the first book to explore the use of the Marshall Plan films and, importantly, their distribution and reception across Europe. The study examines every available film – the 170 that remain from the 200 estimated to have been made – and looks at how they were designed to instil hope, argue the case for economic restructuring and persuade the Europeans of the superiority of the liberal-capitalist system. The book goes on to reason that the films served as a powerful weapon in the cultural Cold War, but that the European audiences were by no means passive victims of the US propaganda effort. Maria Fritsche discusses the Marshall Plan films in the context of countries across Western, Northern and Southern Europe, covering the majority of the 17 European countries that participated in the Plan in the process. The book incorporates 70 images and utilises a vast number of archival sources to explore the strategies the US adopted to sway the minds of the Europeans, the problems they encountered in the process and, not least, the varied responses of the European audiences. It is a vital study for any scholar or student keen to know more about postwar recovery in Europe, the legacy of the Second World War or America's relationship with Europe in the 20th century.

Book Summer of the Skunks

Download or read book Summer of the Skunks written by Wilmoth Foreman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of ten-year-old Jill, her brothers, sister, and parents and their life on a southern farm in the late 1940s.

Book The Marshall Plan

Download or read book The Marshall Plan written by J. Bradford De Long and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-World War II reconstruction of Western Europe was one of the greatest economic policy and foreign policy successes of this century. "Folk wisdom" assigns a major role in successful reconstruction to the Marshall Plan: the program that transferred some $13 billion to Europe in the years 1948-51. We examine the economic effects of the Marshall Plan, and find that it was not large enough to have significantly accelerated recovery by financing investment, aiding the reconstruction of damaged infrastructure, or easing commodity bottlenecks. We argue, however, that the Marshall Plan did play a major role in setting the stage for post-World War II Western Europe's rapid growth. The conditions attached to Marshall Plan aid pushed European political economy in a direction that left its post World War II "mixed economies" with more "market" and less "controls" in the mix

Book Denmark s Social Democratic Government and the Marshall Plan  1947 1950

Download or read book Denmark s Social Democratic Government and the Marshall Plan 1947 1950 written by Vibeke Sørensen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian and geographer Sorensen (1952-95) wrote her analysis of Danish political policy towards the Marshall Plan during the middle 1980s, but Rudiger says it continues to be essential reading for historians interested in the immediate postwar period. The new edition drops her chapter on COCOM, because more recent studies have made in superfluous. The rest of the study remains intact. It is not indexed. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Dead Aid

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dambisa Moyo
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2009-03-17
  • ISBN : 0374139563
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Dead Aid written by Dambisa Moyo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.