Rise to globalism : american foreign policy since 1938 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
Other Authors: Brinkley, Douglas
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 1997.
Edition:8a ed. rev.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The twisting path to war
  • The war in Europe
  • The war in Asia
  • The beginnings of the cold war
  • The truman doctrine and the Marshall plan
  • Containment tested
  • Korea
  • Eisenower, Dulles, and the irreconcilable conflict
  • From Hungary and Suez to Cuba
  • Kennedy and the New frontiers
  • Vietnam: paying the cost of containment
  • Nixon, détente, and the debacle in Vietnam
  • America in the middle east and Africa
  • Carter and human rights
  • Reagan and the Evil empire
  • The end of the cold war
  • Bush and the Gulf war
  • Clinton and democratic enlargement.