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Fearing the Worst – How Korea Transformed the Cold War: Woodrow Wilson Center Series

Autor Samuel Wells Jr.
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mar 2020
Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades. Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231192743
ISBN-10: 0231192746
Pagini: 600
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 47 mm
Greutate: 0.95 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Seria Woodrow Wilson Center Series


Notă biografică

Samuel F. Wells, Jr, is a Cold War Fellow in the History and Public Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the coauthor of The Ordeal of World Power: American Diplomacy Since 1900 (Little, Brown, 1975), and coeditor of Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789 (Columbia University Press, 1984), Limiting Nuclear Proliferation (Ballinger, 1985), and Strategic Defenses and Soviet-American Relations (Ballinger, 1987).

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The War
1. Stalin Endorses War in Asia
2. Kim Il-sung Plans an Attack
3. Truman Consolidates US Commitments
4. Joseph McCarthy Sells the Politics of Fear
5. Paul Nitze Sounds the Tocsin
6. North Korea Drives South
7. Truman Reverses Policy
8. Douglas MacArthur Gambles and Wins
9. Mao Zedong Intervenes Massively
10. Peng Dehuai and Matthew Ridgway Fight to a Stalemate
Part II. The Transformation
11. George C. Marshall and Robert Lovett Guide a US Buildup
12. Dean Acheson Leads the Defense of Europe
13. Andrei Tupolev Creates a Strategic Bomber Force
14. Curtis LeMay Builds the Strategic Air Command
15. Igor Kurchatov Develops Soviet Nuclear Weapons
16. Walter Bedell Smith Reforms and Expands the CIA
17. Korea Transforms the Cold War
Chronology
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index