The United States and Europe in the Twentieth Century

✍ Scribed by David Ryan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The relationship between the US and Europe in the 20th century is one of the key considerations in any understanding of international relations/international history during this period. David Ryan first sets the context by looking at the trends and traditions of America's foreign relations in the 19th century, and then considers the changing nature of America's vision of Europe from 1900 to the present. The book examines America's response to and involvement in the two World Wars, including the structure of international power after the First World War and American reaction to the rise of Nazi Germany. American/European relations during the Cold War (1945-1970) are discussed, and Ryan considers the contentious debate that America was trying to establish an empire by invitation. Finally, the book looks at the ever-increasing unification of Europe and how this has affected America's role and influence.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Series
Author’s Acknowledgements
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
List of Maps
Chronology
Part One: Background
1. The Traditions of US Foreign Relations
Cooperation, Conflict and the National Interest
Spheres of Influence: The Monroe Doctrine
Empire as a Way of Life: Manifest Destiny and Imperialism
Open Doors: Expanding Trade
The Turn into the American Century
Part Two: The United States and the World Wars
2. Wilson’s Order and European Power
The United States and Imperial Europe
The First World War: Prelude to Intervention, 1914–16
US Intervention
The Russian Revolution
The Western Front and Western Peace
3. The Inter-War System to the Second World War
Ruling the Waves?
Economic Engagement with Europe
Economic Fragmentation: The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
Washington and The Rise of Fascist Europe
US Isolation?
The Second World War
Part Three: The United States, Europe and the Cold War
4. The Division of Europe, 1945–56
Planning the Post-war Order
Emerging Cold War in Europe
The Marshall Plan: Integrating Europe
Crisis in Berlin and the formation of NATO
The End(s) of Empire
Peaceful Coexistence?
5. The United States and Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals? 1957–72
Bystanders: Eastern Europe and Hungary
Transatlantic Division: Suez
European Unity
Kennedy’s Grand Design
De Gaulle and Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals
Ostpolitik, Czechoslovakia, Détente
Part Four: The United States, European Integration and the end of the Cold War
6. US Decline and European Integration, 1973–86
Détente and Economic Tensions
The Year of Europe and EEC Enlargement
End of Authoritarian Government
Renewed Cold War?
Solidarity in the East or West?
Single European Act
7. The End of The Cold War, 1987–2000
Soviet New Thinking
Revolution in Eastern Europe
German Unification
Soviet Dissolution, 1991
The European Union or Transatlantic Unity?
Yugoslavia: Bosnia to Kosovo
Part Five: Assessment
8. Extending the West
Part Six: Documents
Glossary
Who’s Who
Further Reading
References
Index