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American Foreign Relations

by: Paterson

American Foreign Relations

by: Paterson

ISBN 13:
9780395938874
ISBN 10:
0395938872
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/01/1999
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Preface

Imperialist Leap, 1895--1900

(31)

The Venezuelan Crisis, 1895

(30)

Men of Empire in the 1890s

(2)

Cleveland Confronts Cuba Libre, 1895--1897

(3)

McKinley's Road to War, 1897--1898

(3)

Why War: Exploiting Opportunity

(3)

The Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War

(2)

Peace and Empire: The Debate in the United States

(2)

Imperial Collisions in Asia: The Philippine Insurrection and the Open Door in China

(6)

The Elbows of a World Power, 1895--1900

(2)

Further Reading for the Period to 1895--1900

(1)

Notes to Chapter 1

(2)

Managing, Policing, and Extending the Empire, 1900--1914

(35)

Severing Panama from Colombia for the Canal, 1903

(34)

The Conservative Shapers of Empire

(4)

Cuba's Limited Independence Under the Platt Amendment

(2)

The Constable of the Caribbean: The Roosevelt Corollary, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic

(2)

The Quest for Order in Haiti and Nicaragua

(3)

The Mexican Revolution Threatens U.S. Interests

(3)

Japan, China, and Dollar Diplomacy in Asia

(4)

Anglo-American Rapprochement and Empire-Building

(7)

Further Reading for the Period 1900--1914

(2)

Notes to Chapter 2

(3)

War, Peace, and Revolution in the Time of Wilson, 1914--1920

(41)

The Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915

(40)

The Travails of Neutrality

(4)

Submarines, Neutral Rights, and Mediation Efforts

(2)

Wilson Leads America into World War

(4)

The Debate over Preparedness

(3)

The Doughboys Make the Difference in Europe

(3)

Wilson Imagines a Better Future: The Fourteen Points and the Peace Conference

(3)

Principle, Personality, Health, and Partisanship: The League Fight

(5)

Red Scare Abroad: Bolshevism and Intervention in Russia

(4)

The Whispering Gallery of Global Disorder

101

(2)

Further Reading for the Period 1914--1920

103

(2)

Notes to Chapter 3

105

(3)

Descending into Europe's Maelstrom, 1920--1939

108

(33)

Roosevelt's Attempt to Extend America's Frontier to the Rhine, 1939

109

(32)

The Independent Internationalists

113

(4)

Economic and Cultural Expansion in a Rickety World

117

(5)

Peace Seekers for a World Without War

122

(3)

Cold as Steel: Soviet-American Encounters

125

(3)

Hitler's Germany, Appeasement, and the Outbreak of War

128

(3)

American Isolationism and the Neutrality Acts

131

(2)

Roosevelt Shifts and Congress Balks on the Eve of War

133

(3)

Further Reading for the Period 1920--1939

136

(2)

Notes to Chapter 4

138

(3)

Asia, Latin America, and the Vagaries of Power, 1920--1939

141

(32)

The Manchurian Crisis, 1931--1932

142

(31)

A Question of Power

144

(2)

Facing Japan: The Washington Naval Disarmament Conference and China

146

(3)

Japan's March for a New Pacific Order

149

(4)

Making and Managing Good Neighbors in Latin America

153

(5)

Building Dictators and Guards: The Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Haiti

158

(4)

Subverting Nationalism in Cuba and Puerto Rico

162

(2)

Compromising with Mexico: Oil and Nationalism

164

(3)

Pan Americanism and the Approach of the Second World War

167

(2)

Further Reading for the Period 1920--1939

169

(1)

Notes to Chapter 5

170

(3)

Survival and Spheres: The Allies and the Second World War, 1939--1945

173

(49)

The Atlantic Charter Conference, 1941

174

(48)

Juggling Between War and Peace, 1939--1941

177

(5)

Asian Collision Course: Japanese-American Relations, 1939--1941

182

(5)

The Big Three: Strategies and Fissures, 1941--1943

187

(5)

In Search of a China Policy

192

(4)

Bystanders to the Holocaust: Americans and the Murder of the Jews

196

(4)

Planning the Postwar Peace, 1943--1945

200

(4)

Compromises at the Yalta Conference

204

(4)

To Each Its Own: Allied Divergence and Spheres of Influence

208

(4)

The Potsdam Conference and the Legacy of the Second World War

212

(3)

Further Reading for the Period 1939--1945

215

(3)

Notes to Chapter 6

218

(4)

All-Embracing Struggle: The Cold War Begins, 1945--1950

222

(44)

The Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima, 1945

223

(43)

The Big Two and the International System: Sources of the Long War

229

(3)

Challenging the Soviet Sphere in Eastern Europe

232

(4)

Stiffening Up: Early Cold War Crises

236

(5)

The Truman Doctrine, Israel, and Containment

241

(4)

The Marshall Plan, NATO, and the Division of Europe

245

(4)

Asian Allies: Restoring Japan and Backing Jiang in China

249

(4)

The People's Republic of China and U.S. Nonrecognition

253

(1)

The Cold War Mentality Takes Root

254

(4)

Further Reading for the Period 1945--1950

258

(4)

Notes to Chapter 7

262

(4)

Global Watch: The Korean War and Eisenhower Foreign Relations, 1950--1961

266

(49)

The Decision to Intervene in the Korean War, 1950

267

(48)

The Korean War Intensifies the Cold War

269

(6)

Ambivalent Cold Warrior: Dwight D. Eisenhower

275

(4)

John Foster Dulles, McCarthyism, and the New Look

279

(1)

The Glacier Grinds On: Khrushchev, Eisenhower, and the Cold War

280

(6)

Missile Race, Berlin, and the U-2 Mess

286

(5)

To the Brink with China; To the Market with Japan

291

(4)

The Third World Rises: Revolutionary Nationalism and Nonalignment

295

(5)

Stormy Weather: Nationalism in the Middle East and Latin America

300

(5)

Cultural Expansion and the Globalized Cold War

305

(3)

Further Reading for the Period 1950--1961

308

(3)

Notes to Chapter 8

311

(4)

Passing the Torch: The Vietnam Years, 1961--1969

315

(46)

The Tet Offensive in Vietnam, 1968

316

(45)

Vietnamese Wars Before 1961

320

(5)

John F. Kennedy and His ``Action Intellectuals''

325

(3)

Arms Buildup, Berlin Crisis, and Nation Building

328

(5)

The Most Dangerous Area in the World: The Cuban Revolution and Latin America

333

(2)

Spinning out of Control: The Cuban Missile Crisis

335

(5)

Laos, Vietnam, and the Kennedy Legacy

340

(4)

Nose to Nose: Lyndon B. Johnson and the World

344

(2)

``The Biggest Damned Mess'': Johnson's Vietnam War

346

(5)

As the Doves Dissent, the Peace Efforts Fail

351

(3)

Further Reading for the Period 1961--1969

354

(3)

Notes to Chapter 9

357

(4)

Detente and Disequilibrium, 1969--1977

361

(45)

Richard M. Nixon's Trip to China, 1972

362

(44)

Nixon, Kissinger, and Their Critics

365

(4)

Detente, SALT, and the Nuclear Arms Race

369

(5)

Arab-Israeli War and the Mideast Arms Race

374

(5)

Covert Action Against Radicals in Latin America and Africa

379

(4)

Economic Competition, Environmental Distress, and the North-South Debate

383

(6)

Vietnamization, Cambodia, and a Wider War

389

(3)

The Peace Agreement, Withdrawal, and Defeat

392

(3)

The Many Lessons and Questions of Vietnam

395

(5)

Further Reading for the Period 1969--1977

400

(2)

Notes to Chapter 10

402

(4)

To Begin the World Over Again: Carter, Reagan, and Revivalism, 1977--1989

406

(54)

The Iranian Hostage Crisis, 1979--1981

407

(53)

Zbigs and Zags: Carter's Divided Administration

412

(3)

The Panama Canal and Nationalism in High Voltage: Latin America

415

(4)

Carter's Activism in the Middle East and Africa

419

(4)

The Red Thread: SALT-II, Afghanistan, and the Carter Record

423

(7)

Ronald Reagan's Mission to Revive Hegemony

430

(4)

Soviet-American Crises and Antinuclearism

434

(6)

The ``Backyard'': Central America and the Caribbean

440

(6)

Endangered Interests in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia

446

(5)

Triumphs and Time Bombs: The Reagan Legacy

451

(2)

Further Reading for the Period 1977--1989

453

(3)

Notes to Chapter 11

456

(4)

Sheriff of the Posse: Americans and the World Since 1989

460

(53)

The Berlin Wall Comes Down, 1989

461

(52)

Mikhail Gorbachev and the Revolutions of 1989

462

(3)

Not Just Another Country: Bush, Clinton, and Post-Cold War Priorities

465

(5)

Europe Transformed: Soviet Disintegration, German Reunification, NATO Expansion, Balkan Hell

470

(7)

Hope and Tragedy in Africa

477

(4)

Markets and Invasions in Latin America

481

(7)

Mideast Tests: Persian Gulf War and Arab-Israeli Peace Process

488

(5)

Feuding and Trading with China, Vietnam, and Japan

493

(5)

Global Bewilderments

498

(7)

Further Reading for the Period Since 1989

505

(3)

Notes to Chapter 12

508

(5)

Appendix: Makers of American Foreign Relations

513

(4)

General bibliography

517

(24)

General Reference Works

517

(1)

Overviews of Relations with Countries, Regions, and Other Places of the World, Including Atlases and Gazetteers, Annual Surveys and Chronologies, Bibliographies, Biographical Aids, Chronologies, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries, and Statistics

518

(11)

Overviews of Subjects, Including Atlases, Annual Surveys, Bibliographies, Biographical Aids, Chronologies, Encyclopedias, and Statistics

529

(12)

Index

541

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