The Triumph and Tragedy of American Containment
Author : Ronald Dean Landa
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 1971
Category : World politics
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Author : Ronald Dean Landa
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 1971
Category : World politics
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Author : Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0691227993
When George C. Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questions but also a State Department rendered ineffective by neglect, maladministration, and low morale. Soon after his arrival Marshall asked George F. Kennan to head a new component in the department's structure--the Policy Planning Staff. Here Wilson Miscamble scrutinizes Kennan's subsequent influence over foreign policymaking during the crucial years from 1947 to 1950.
Author : Thomas G. Paterson
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Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Cold War
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Author : Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : George Frost Kennan
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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In 1945 the United States saw the Soviet Union as its principal ally. By 1947, it saw the Soviet Union as its principal opponent. How did this happen? Historian John Lukacs has provided an answer to this question through an exchange of letters with George F. Kennan. Their correspondence deals with the antecedents of containment between 1944 and 1946, during most of which time Kennan was at the American embassy in Moscow. Kennan had strong opinions about America's appropriate role during and after World War II and is perhaps best known as the architect of America's containment policy. Much has been written about Kennan and containment, but relatively little is known about the events that made him compose and send the Long Telegram in 1946 that ultimately became the draft for foreign policy dealing with the Soviets in the following forty years. These letters show Kennan's fear of the extent to which the United States misunderstood the Soviet regime. Especially in 1944, at the time of the Russians' betrayal of the Warsaw Uprising, it became evident that the Soviets were interested in establishing their rigid domination of Eastern and Central Europe and dividing the continent. Kennan's letters to Lukacs are thorough and detailed, suggesting that the Truman administration was not in the least premature in opposing the Soviet Union. Indeed, both correspondents suggest that these decisions should have been made earlier. This series of letters will add greatly to our understanding of what preceded containment and the Cold War in 1947.
Author : Joseph Laurence Black
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
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Author : Warren F. Kuehl
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
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Author : American Historical Association
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : T. Michael Ruddy
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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