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Major problems in American foreign policy : documents and essays

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Major problems in American foreign policy : documents and essays -- American foreign policy

Call No

E183.7

Edition

Second edition.

Authors

Paterson, Thomas G., 1941-

Subjects

Diplomatic relations.
(DLC)n 78095330 United States--Foreign relations.
(DLC)n 78095330 United States--Foreign relations--Sources.
United States.
(DLC)n 78095330 United States--Foreign relations--SOURCES.
(DLC)n 78095330 United States--Foreign relations--ADDRESSES, ESSAYS, LECTURES.
Sources.

Language

English

Published

Lexington, Mass. : D.C. Heath.

Publication Desc

2 volumes ;

ISBN

0669064505

v. 1)

LCCN

83080923

Dimensions

24 cm.

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v. 1. To 1914 -- v. 2. Since 1914.
v. 2. Since 1914. 1. The characteristics of modern foreign policy: -- Essays: Democracy / Dexter Perkins -- Moralism-legalism / George F. Kennan -- The open door policy / William Appleman Williams. -- 2. United States entry into World War I: -- Documents: The first Lusitania note, 1915 -- The Gore-McLemore resolution, 1916 -- Lansing and Bernstorff discuss submarine warfare, 1916 -- The Zimmerman telegram, 1917 -- Woodrow Wilson's war message, 1917 -- Senator Robert M. LaFollette dissents, 1917. -- Essays: Realism and national security / Daniel M. Smith -- In defense of rights and honor / Ross Gregory -- Wilson's wrong choices / Otis L. Graham, Jr. -- 3. Woodrow Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the League fight: -- Documents: The Fourteen Points, 1918 -- Article 10 of the League Covenant, 1919 -- The Lodge reservations, 1919 -- Wilson defends the League, 1919. -- Essays: Woodrow Wilson's perspective / Arthur S. Link -- Henry Cabot Lodge's persepctive / William C. Widenor.
4. Diplomacy in the 1920s: -- Documents: Charles Evan Hughes on naval disarmament, 1921 -- The Washington Conference treaties, 1922 -- Non-recognition of Soviet Russia, 1923 -- Herbert Hoover on foreign trade, 1926 -- Senator Burton K. Wheeler condemns intervention in Nicaragua, 1927 -- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 -- The journalist Edwin L. James on America's world power, 1930. -- Essays: American expansion and world order / Robert Freeman Smith -- American military power and security / John Braeman. -- 5. Franklin D. Roosevelt, isolationism, and World War II: -- Documents: Senator Gerald P. Nye on the causes of war, 1935 -- The Neutrality Acts, 1935-1939 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt on war, at Chautaqua, 1936 -- Roosevelt on the "arsenal of democracy," 1940 -- Charles A. Beard criticizes lend-lease, 1941 -- The Artlantic Charter, 1941. -- Essays: Roosevelt the isolationist / Robert A. Divine -- The cautious politician as foreign policy maker / James MacGregor Burns -- Roosevelt's campaign against his isolationist critics / Richard W. Steele. -- 6. Japanese-American relations and Pearl Harbor: -- Documents: The Stimson Doctrine -- Roosevelt's "Quarantine" speech, 1937 -- American proposals to Japan, November 1941 -- The Japanese position, 1941 -- Roosevelt's war message, 1941. -- Essays: The challenge from Japanese aggression / Herbert Feis -- No clear and present danger / Bruce M. Russett.
7. The grand Aliiance of the Second World War: -- Documents: Franklin D. Roosevelt's promise of a second front, 1942 -- Joseph Stalin's impatience over a second front, 1943 -- Roosevelt and Stalin on the "Four Policemen" at Teheran, 1943 -- The Churchill-Stalin Percentage Deal, 1944 -- The Yalta Protocol of Proceedings, 1945 -- Agreement on Soviet entry into the war against Japan, 1945 -- Roosevelt's anger with Stalin, 1945 -- Roosevelt's last letter to Churchill, 1945 -- General Dwight D. Eisenhower on beating the Russians to Berlin in 1945, 1949. -- Essays: Roosevelt, realism, and the Russians / John Lewis Gaddis -- America's wartime blunders / Hanson W. Baldwin -- Military decisions and diplomatic dilemmas / Stephen E. Ambrose. -- 8. The origins of the Cold War: -- Documents: The Interim Committee on Military Use of the Atomic Bomb, 1945 -- The Franck Committee on non-combat atomic demonstratiions, 1945 -- Henry L. Stimson's appeal for atomic talks with Russia, 1945 -- Harry Hopkins and Josef Stalin discuss lend-lease and Poland, 1945 -- George F. Kennans's "long telegram," 1946 -- Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, 1946 -- Henry A. Wallace questions the "get tough" policy, 1946 -- The Truman Doctrine, 1947 -- National Security Council Paper no. 68 (NSC-68), 1950. -- Essays: Historians and Cold War origins / J. Samuel Walker -- The sources of the Cold War / Thomas G. Paterson -- The atomic bomb and diplomacy / Barton J. Bernstein. -- 9. Mao's China and the chances for Sino-American accomodation: -- Documents: Ambassador Stuart reports on Mao's overture, 1940 -- Chou En-lai's (Zhou Enlai's) demarche, 1949 -- The State Department's response to the demarche, 1949 -- President Truman on the demarche, 1949 -- Dean Acheson in the "White Paper," 1949 -- Mao's denunciation of American imperialism, 1949 -- Senator William Knowland argues against recognition, 1950. -- Essays: Acheson's search for accommodation / Warren I. Cohen -- The American failure to negotiate / William W. Stueck, Jr. -- No lost chance : Chinese anti-Americansim / Steven M. Goldstein.
10. The Korean War: -- Documents: Dean Acheson on the defense perimeter in Asia, 1950 -- North Korea blames South Korea for starting the war, 1950 -- "Blair House Meeting," June 26, 1950 -- General MacArthur on the chances of Chinese intervention, 1950 -- The Chinese case for intervention, 1950 -- Truman defends American policy, 1951 -- MacArthur's "No substitute for victory" speech, 1951. -- Essays: American military intervention in the Korean Civil War / Barton J. Bernstein -- Ensuring Korea's freedom : the decision to cross the 38th Parallel / James I. Matray. -- 11. The Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy: -- Documents: John Foster Dulles on liberation, 1953 -- Guatemala defends its reforms, 1954 -- Dulles on "International Communism" in Guatemala, 1954 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower explains the "Domino Theory," 1954 -- Walter Lippmann on neutralism, 1956 -- The Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957 -- Eisenhower on the "military-industrial complex," 1962. -- Essays: A critique of the prime mover, John Foster Dulles / Townsend Hoopes -- Eisenhower as activist leader / Fred L. Greenstein -- The CIA intervention in Guatemala / Richard Immerman. -- 12. Cuba and Missile Crisis: -- Documents: Assassination plots against Fidel Castro, 1960-1965 -- Khrushchev recalls his decision to deploy the missiles (1962), 1970 -- The Cuban Case, 1962 -- Theodore C. Sorenson's memorandum on Executive Committee discussions, 1962 -- John F. Kennedy's television address, 1962 -- Khrushchev's second letter to the President, 1962 -- Dean Rusk and other leaders on the lessons of the Missile Crisis, 1982. -- Essays: The Kennedys and Cuba / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- The tragic enshrinement of toughness / James A. Nathan.
12. The war in Vietnam: -- Documents: The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945 -- Final declaration of the Geneva Conference on Indo-China, 1954 -- The Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 1964 -- Lyndon B. Johnson explains why Americans fight in Vietnam, 1965 -- George Ball dissents, 1965 -- Lin Piao (Lin Biao) on People's War, 1965 -- Senator J. William Fulbright on the arrogance of power, 1966 -- Clark M. Clifford remembers his post-Tet questions (1968), 1969 -- Private Paul Meadlo explains the My Lai Massacre (1968), 1969. -- Essays: -- Historical legacies and bureaucratic procedures / James C. Thomson, Jr. -- To master the Third World / Gabriel Kolko -- Why the United States failed in Vietnam / George C. Herring. -- 14. The Nixon-Kissinger diplomacy: -- Documents: Richard Nixon recalls his initial goals (1968), 1978 -- Henry Kissinger on rapprochement with China (1972), 1979 -- The SALT-I agreements, 1972 -- Kissinger on détente, 1974 -- United States covert action in Chile (1963-1973), 1975 -- The journalist Anthony Lewis on Kissinger, 1977. -- Essays: Kissinger and a safer world / John G. Stoessinger -- Kissinger's flawed and diastrous design / Stanley Hoffmann.