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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Spanish-American War and the Decision for Empire | |
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| The Imperial Surge, 1895-1917 | |
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| The Diplomatic Revolution of the 1890s | |
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| American Culture and the Rise of U.S. Imperialism | |
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| Popular Culture and U.S. Imperialism | |
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| Opposition to Imperialism | |
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| The Venezuelan Boundary Dispute | |
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| The Anglo-American Rapprochement | |
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| The Spanish-American War | |
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| The Acquisition of an Overseas Empire | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Surge into Asia: Empire in the Philippines and the Open Door in China | |
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| The Suppression of the Philippine Revolution | |
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| The Open Door Notes | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Japan, and the Limits of the Open Door | |
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| William Howard Taft and Dollar Diplomacy in Asia | |
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| Woodrow Wilson and Missionary Diplomacy in Asia | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Surge into Latin America: Varieties of American Empire | |
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| The Nature of the U.S. Empire in Latin America | |
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| Puerto Rico: Governing a Colony | |
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| Cuba: Shaping a Formal Protectorate | |
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| The Panama Canal: Acquiring a Formal Enclave in an Informal Colony | |
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| The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: Staking Out America's Sphere of Influence | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine in U.S. Popular Culture | |
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| William Howard Taft and Dollar Diplomacy in Central America | |
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| Woodrow Wilson and Missionary Diplomacy in the Caribbean | |
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| Missionary Diplomacy in Mexico | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Europe, America, and World War I | |
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| Germany Disrupts the European Balance of Power | |
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| The United States and the European Balance of Power: The Algeciras Conference | |
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| The Issue of Neutral Rights on the Eve of War | |
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| The Outbreak of World War I | |
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| Wilsonian Neutrality | |
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| The German Response: Submarine Warfare | |
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| Wilson's Temporary Victory: "He Kept Us Out of War" | |
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| America Enters the War | |
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| Opposition to War: The Culture of Dissent | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The United States and the Peace of Versailles | |
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| America and the Allied Victory | |
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| Conflicting Plans for Peace: Wilson's "New Diplomacy" Versus Europe's "Old Diplomacy" | |
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| Intervention in Russia | |
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| Pressures on the Peace from Left and Right | |
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| Negotiating the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| Colonialism and Self-Determination in the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| The Senate, the League of Nations, and the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| U.S. Foreign Policy Between the World Wars | |
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| Was World War E Inevitable? | |
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| The United States and Attempts at Disarmament | |
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| Economic Diplomacy Toward Europe | |
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| The United States, Japan, and the New Order in Asia | |
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| The Stimson Doctrine | |
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| The Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America | |
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| The Good Neighbor Policy in Action: Fordlandia | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Coming of World War II | |
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| Appeasement, 1932-1939 | |
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| America's March Toward War in Europe | |
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| The March Toward War in Asia | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Diplomacy of World War H and the Seeds of the Cold War | |
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| Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin: Competing Strategies for the Grand Alliance | |
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| The Diplomacy of the War, 1941-1943 | |
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| Roosevelt and Churchill, 1943 | |
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| From Teheran to Yalta, November 1943 to February 1945 | |
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| The Yalta Conference, February 1945 | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Harry Truman and the Onset of the Cold War | |
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| Truman Takes Over | |
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| From Potsdam to the Truman Doctrine: The Transition from Quid Pro Quo Diplomacy to Containment | |
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| From the Marshall Plan to the War in Korea: The Hardening of Containment | |
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| The Cold War in East Asia | |
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| The Korean War | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The New Look of Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
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| Eisenhower, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe | |
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| The Dilemma of the Middle East | |
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| Eisenhower and Latin America | |
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| Eisenhower and Asia | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Strategy of Flexible Response | |
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| The Bay of Pigs and Its Aftermath | |
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| The Cuban Missile Crisis and Its Aftermath | |
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| Kennedy and the Nationalist Alternative in the Third World | |
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| Race and American Foreign Policy in the 1960s: The Civil Rights Movement, the Nationalist Alternative, and the War in Vietnam | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Vietnam War | |
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| Kennedy, Diem, and Ho Chi Minh | |
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| Johnson Takes Charge | |
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| Nixon Takes Over | |
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| From Escalation to Withdrawal | |
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| The Impact of Vietnam | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: Manipulating the Balance of Power | |
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| Richard Nixon's "Structure of Peace" | |
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| The Opening to China | |
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| The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks | |
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| Dilemmas in the Developed World: Europe and Japan | |
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| The Third World | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Time Bombs in the Middle East | |
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| The Six-Day War, June 1967 | |
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| Black September | |
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| The Yom Kippur War, October 1973 | |
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| Kissinger and Step-by-Step Diplomacy | |
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| Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-1976 | |
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| The Camp David Process and the Israeli-Egyptian Peace | |
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| Eruptions in the Persian Gulf and the Carter Doctrine | |
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| Lebanon and the Injection of American Forces into the Arab-Israeli Conflict | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and the Demise of D�tente, 1976-1984 | |
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| From Carter to Reagan | |
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| Carter, Reagan, China, and Africa | |
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| Carter, Reagan, and Latin America | |
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| Carter, Reagan, and the International Economy | |
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| Carter, Reagan, the Soviets, and Nuclear Arms | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The End of the Cold War | |
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| The Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev | |
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| The Reykjavik Summit and the End of the Cold War | |
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| Gorbachev, Bush, and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire | |
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| Gorbachev, Bush, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| American Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of the Cold War | |
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| The Debate Over American Intervention | |
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| The Impact of the End of the Cold War on the Middle East | |
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| The Impact of the End of the Cold War on Latin America | |
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| The Impact of the End of the Cold War on Asia | |
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| The Impact of the End of the Cold War on Africa | |
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| The Impact of the End of the Cold War on Europe | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| 9/11 | |
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| 9/11 and the War in Afghanistan | |
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| 9/11 and the Bush Doctrine: A Turning Point in American Foreign Policy | |
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| The Domestic War on Terror | |
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| The War in Iraq | |
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| The Sunni Awakening and the Surge | |
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| Controversial Issues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Barack Obama and the Post-9/11 World | |
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| Obama's Challenge to the Bush Doctrine | |
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| Iraq | |
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| Afghanistan | |
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| The Arab Spring | |
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| The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict | |
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| Iran | |
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| North Korea | |
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| Russia: The Reset | |
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| America as a World Power | |
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| Controversial Issues: The Cultural Divide and American Foreign Policy | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |