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Meeting the Communist Threat : Truman to Reagan.
This volume contains a series of essays on major subjects in American diplomacy since World War II. The author takes the view that US foreign policy has been distorted by the overriding importance given to combating the Communist threat.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; 1. Red Fascism: The American Image of Aggressive Totalitarianism; 2. America's Quest for Peace and Prosperity: European Reconstruction and Anti-Communism; 3. Harry S Truman, American Power, and the Soviet Threat; 4. If Europe, Why Not China? Confronting Communism in Asia; 5. Shaping the Cold War Mentality: Truman, Public Opinion, and Congress; 6. Resisting Exaggerations of the Threat: Critics of the Early Cold War; 7. From Architect of Containment to Critic: George F. Kennan and the Soviet Threat; 8. Beginning to Meet the Threat in the Third World: The Point Four Program.
- 9. Threat to the Middle East? The Eisenhower Doctrine10. Bearing the Burden: John F. Kennedy and the Communist Menace; 11. Questioning the Vietnam War: Isolationism Revisited; 12. Nixon, Kissinger, and Détente: New Lever of Containment; 13. The Clandestine Response: The CIA, Covert Actions, and Congressional Oversight; 14. Ronald Reagan, Central America, and the Legacy of Vietnam; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M.