Format:
1 Online-Ressource (432 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed
ISBN:
9781315497280
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Europe, America, and World War I -- Germany Disrupts the European Balance of Power -- The United States and the European Balance of Power: The Algeciras Conference -- The Issue of Neutral Rights on the Eve of War -- The Outbreak of World War I -- Wilsonian Neutrality -- The German Response: Submarine Warfare -- Wilson's Temporary Victory: "He Kept Us Out of War" -- America Enters the War -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 2. The United States and the Peace of Versailles -- America and the Allied Victory -- Conflicting Plans for Peace: Wilson's "New Diplomacy" Versus Europe's "Old Diplomacy" -- Intervention in Russia -- Pressures on the Peace From Left and Right -- Negotiating the Treaty of Versailles -- The Senate, the League of Nations, and the Treaty of Versailles -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 3. U.S. Foreign Policy Between the World Wars -- Was World War II Inevitable? -- The United States and Attempts at Disarmament -- Economic Diplomacy Toward Europe -- The United States, Japan, and the New Order in Asia -- The Stimson Doctrine -- The Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 4. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Coming of World War II -- Appeasement: 1932-1939 -- America's March Toward War in Europe -- The March Toward War in Asia -- Controversial Issues -- 5. The Diplomacy of World War II and the Seeds of the Cold War -- Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin: Competing Strategies for the Grand Alliance -- The Diplomacy of the War: 1941-1943 -- Roosevelt and Churchill: 1943 -- From Teheran to Yalta: February 1944 -- The Yalta Conference: February 1945 -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 6. Harry Truman and the Onset of the Cold War -- Truman Takes Over
Content:
From Potsdam to the Truman Doctrine: The Transition From Quid Pro Quo Diplomacy to Containment -- From the Marshall Plan to the War in Korea: The Hardening of Containment -- The Cold War in East Asia -- The Korean War -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 7. The New Look of Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Eisenhower, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe -- The Dilemma of the Middle East -- Eisenhower and Latin America -- Eisenhower and Asia -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 8. John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Flexible Response -- Kennedy and the Strategy of Flexible Response -- The Bay of Pigs and Its Aftermath -- The Cuban Missile Crisis and Its Aftermath -- Kennedy and the Nationalist Alternative in the Third World -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 9. The Vietnam War -- Kennedy, Diem, and Ho Chi Minh -- Johnson Takes Charge -- Nixon Takes Over -- From Escalation to Withdrawal -- The Impact of Vietnam -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 10. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: Manipulating the Balance of Power -- Richard Nixon's "Structure of Peace" -- The Opening to China -- The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks -- Dilemmas in the Developed World: Europe and Japan -- The Third World -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 11. Time Bombs in the Middle East -- The Six-Day War of June 1967 -- Black September -- The Yom Kippur War: October 1973 -- Kissinger and Step-by-Step Diplomacy -- Civil War in Lebanon: 1975-1976 -- The Camp David Process and the Israeli-Egyptian Peace -- Eruptions in the Persian Gulf and the Carter Doctrine -- Lebanon and the Injection of American Forces Into the Arab-Israeli Conflict -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 12. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and the Demise of Detente: 1976-1984 -- From Carter to Reagan -- Carter, Reagan, and China and Africa
Content:
Carter, Reagan, and Latin America -- Carter, Reagan, and the International Economy -- Carter, Reagan, the Soviets, and Nuclear Arms -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 13. The End of the Cold War -- The Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev -- The Reykjavik Summit and the End of the Cold War -- Gorbachev, Bush, and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire -- Gorbachev, Bush, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 14. American Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of the Cold War -- The Debate Over American Intervention -- The Impact of the End of the Cold War on the Middle East -- The Impact of the End of the Cold War on Latin America -- The Impact of the End of the Cold War on Asia -- The Impact of the End of the Cold War on Africa -- The Impact of the End of the Cold War on Europe -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- 15. George W. Bush, 9/11, and the War in Iraq -- 9111 and the War in Afghanistan -- 9111 and the Bush Doctrine: A Turning Point in American Foreign Policy? -- The Domestic War on Terror -- The War in Iraq -- The Fallout From the War in Iraq -- Controversial Issues -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author
Additional Edition:
9780765620569
Additional Edition:
Print version Combs, Jerald A History of American Foreign Policy, Volume 2: From 1895 Armonk : Taylor and Francis,c2008 9780765620569
Language:
English
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