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| Maps | |
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| Prefe | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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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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| 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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| The Senate, the League, 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 II 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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| 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 and Further Reading | |
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| The Diplomacy of World War II 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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| 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 | |
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| 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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| The New Look | |
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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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| Kennedy, Johnson, and Flexible Response | |
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| Kennedy 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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| 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 Over | |
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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 Limitations 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 of 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 Detente, 1976-1984 | |
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| From Carter to Reagan | |
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| Carter, Reagan, and 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 Beginning of the End of the Cold War | |
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| Gorbachev, Reagan, and the End of the Cold War | |
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| Gorbachev, George 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: The Future of American Foreign Policy | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| George W. Bush, 9/11, and the Iraq War | |
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| 9/11 and the War in Afghanistan | |
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| 9/11 and the Bush Doctrine: A New 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 Fallout from the Iraq War | |
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| Controversial Issues and Further Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |