War and Cold War in American Foreign Policy 1942–62

✍ Scribed by Dale Carter, Robin Clifton (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 269
Series: Cold War History Series
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction: Between Past and Prologue....Pages 1-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The Second World War: Not (Just) the Origins of the Cold War....Pages 31-48
Unconditional Surrender: The Dawn of the Atomic Age....Pages 49-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Mobilizing Culture: The State-Private Network and the CIA in the Early Cold War....Pages 83-107
Challenge and Response: Arnold Toynbee and the United States during the Cold War....Pages 108-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Waging Limited Conflict: The Impact of the Korean War on Anglo-American Relations, 1950–1953....Pages 133-155
War Crimes and Historical Memory: The United Nations Occupation of North Korea in 1950....Pages 156-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
The United States, Argentina, and the End of the First Perón Government, 1953–1955....Pages 179-210
The Real Gap in the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Post-Cold War Historiography and the Continued Omission of Cuba....Pages 211-239
Back Matter....Pages 240-250

✦ Subjects

History of the Americas; Political Science and International Relations, general; International Relations; Military and Defence Studies; Modern History; US History

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