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| Approaching The Study Of American Foreign Relations | |
| Essays | |
| The World-System, Hegemony, and Decline | |
| Culture, National Identity, and the Myth of America | |
| Gender Analysis and Foreign Relations | |
| The Adaptable Power of Racism | |
| National Security, Core Values, and Power | |
| Bureaucratic Politics and Policy Outcomes | |
| Further Reading | |
| The First World War, And The League Fight | |
| Documents | |
| The First Lusitania Note Demands | |
| That Germany Halt Submarine Warfare, 1915 | |
| President | |
| Asks Congress to Declare War Against Germany, 1917 | |
| Senator | |
| Follette Voices His Dissent, 1917 | |
| U.S. War Aims | |
| The Fourteen Points, 1918 | |
| Articles 10 Through 16 of the League of Nations Covenant, 1919 | |
| Wilson Defends the Peace Treaty and League, 1919 | |
| Cabot Lodge Proposes | |
| Reservations to the League Covenant, 1919 | |
| The Chinese Reformer | |
| Recalls the Shandong | |
| Question and China's May Fourth Movement, 1927 | |
| Essays | |
| From Peace to War: Progressive Internationalists | |
| Confront the Forces of Reaction | |
| A Passionate Visionary Stumbles Into War | |
| Wilsonianism and Anti-Colonial Nationalism: A Dream Deferred | |
| Further Reading | |
| The International History Of The Twenties | |
| Documents | |
| Secretary of State | |
| Hughes Advocates Naval Disarmament, 1921 | |
| The Isolationist Chicago Tribune | |
| Denounces Europe's Folly, 1921 | |
| Debts and German Reparations | |
| Hughes Calls on Private Experts for Help, 1922 | |
| The Argentine Writer Manuel Ugarte | |
| Identifies the United States as the "New Rome," 1923 | |
| "Trade Follows the Film," 1925 | |
| Journalist Carlton Beals Reports on Augusto | |
| Revolution, 1928 | |
| U.S. Advertisers Pedal America's | |
| Big Brands to Europe, 1929 | |
| The U.S. Department of Commerce Maps the European Market, 1933 | |
| Essays | |
| U.S. Cultural Expansion in an Era of Systemic Upheaval | |
| Empire by Persuasion: American Mass Consumption in Europe | |
| Empire by Coercion: U.S. Corporate and Military Power in Latin America | |
| Further Reading | |
| U.S. Entry Into World War II | |
| Documents | |
| Cites the Lessons of History and Advocates Neutrality, 1936 | |
| President | |
| Proposes to "Quarantine" Aggressors, 1937 | |
| Japan Envisions a "New Order" in Asia, 1938 | |
| Urges Economic Sanctions Against Japan, 1938 | |
| Warns Against Economic Sanctions, 1939 | |
| FDR Proposes Lend-Lease Aid to Great Britain, 1940 | |
| Roosevelt Orders the U.S. Navy to "Shoot on Sight," 1941 | |
| Japan Proposes Two Diplomatic | |
| Options to the United States, November 1941 | |
| Washington Reject Japan's | |
| Proposals and Reaffirms the Open Door, November 1941 | |
| His War Message to Congress, 1941 | |
| Essays | |
| The Global Threat and the Case for War | |
| The Economic Origins of the Pacific War | |
| Further Reading | |
| Defeating The Axis, Planning The Peace: The Second World War | |
| Documents | |
| Promises a Second Front, 1942 | |
| Conveys Impatience over a Second Front, 1943 | |
| Discuss the "Four Policemen" at the Teheran Conference, 1943 | |
| British Prime Minister | |
| Their Percentages Deal, 1944 | |
| The Yalta Protocol of Proceedings, 1945 | |
| The Yalta Agreement on Soviet Entry into the War Against Japan, 1945 | |
| Anger with Stalin, 1945 | |
| Last Letter to Churchill, 1945 | |
| Essays | |
| Successful Wartime Diplomacy | |
| The Failure of Roosevelt's Wartime Diplomacy | |
| Further Reading | |
| The Origins Of The Cold War | |
| Documents | |
| The Franck Committee | |
| Predicts a Nuclear-Arms Race | |
| If the Atomic Bomb | |
| Is Dropped on Japan, 1945 | |
| Secretary of War | |
| Appeals for Atomic Talks with the Soviets, 1945 | |
| Attach? | |
| Critiques Soviet Foreign Policy in His "Long Telegram," 1946 | |
| Former British Prime Minister | |
| Declares an "Iron Curtain" Has Descended on Europe, 1946 | |
| Soviet Ambassador | |
| Identifies a U.S. Drive for World Supremacy, 1946 | |
| The Truman Doctrine | |
| Calls for Aid to Greece | |
| Turkey to Contain Totalitarianism, 1947 | |
| The Marshall Plan (Economic Cooperation Act) | |
| Provides Aid for European Reconstruction, 1948 | |
| The National Security Council Paper No. 68 (NSC-68) | |
| Reassesses the Soviet | |
| Threat and Recommends a Military Buildup, 1950 | |
| Essays | |
| Atomic Bomb: Wartime Endgame and Cold War Catalyst | |
| Provincialism and Confrontation | |
| Truman's Responsibility | |
| Further Reading with Two Cold War Empires | |
| Imposition vs. Multilateralism Further Reading | |
| The Korean War And Containment | |
| In Asia | |
| Documents | |
| U.S | |
| Stuart Reports Mao's Overture, 1949 | |
| The National Security Council | |
| Extends Containment to Asia, December 1949 | |
| Secretary of State Dean Acheson | |
| Defines the Defense Perimeter in Asia, 1950 | |
| North Korean Leader Kim Il Sung | |
| Pleads for Soviet Support, January 1950 | |
| President | |
| His Advisers Confer at the "Blair House Meeting," June 26, 1950 | |
| Chinese Leader | |
| Informs Joseph Stalin of China's | |
| Decision to Enter the Korean War, 1950 | |
| General Douglas MacArthur | |
| Dismisses the Likelihood of Chinese Intervention, 1950 | |
| MacArthur's "No Substitute for Victory" Speech, 1951 | |
| Essays | |
| Kim's Civil War, Stalin's Opportunism, and Truman's Containment | |
| Mao's Unalterable Decision to Enter the Korean War | |
| The Lost Chance for Peace | |
| Washington Rejected Chinese Communist Overtures | |
| Further Reading | |
| Nuclear Arms | |
| Documents | |
| National Security Council Paper No. 162/2 (NSC-162/2) Promotes Atomic Power, 1953 | |
| Secretary of State | |
| Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons | |
| The Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1955 | |
| The National Security Council | |
| Discusses the Ramifications of Sputnik, 1957 | |
| The National Committee for a Sane | |
| Nuclear Policy (SANE) Protests the Nuclear Arms Race, 1957 | |
| Khrushchev Explains | |
| His Berlin Strategy to Allies, 1958 | |
| Khrushchev Reflects on the Nuclear Arms Race, 1970 | |
| Presses for More Military Spending to Close the Missile Gap, 1960 | |
| Against the "Military-Industrial Comple," 1961 | |
| Essays | |
| Eisenhower's Heroic but Failed Crusade Against Militarization | |
| Vladislav M Zubok? | |
| Khrushchev's "New Look": Brinksmanship and Bluff | |
| Further Reading | |
| Culture And U.S.-Third World Relations During the Cold War | |
| Documents | |
| Time Showcases the New Israelis | |
| Pioneering and Pragmatic, 1948 | |
| Requests U.S. Help for Israel's "Pioneers," 1948 | |
| U.S. Aid Officials Liken Asia's Developing | |
| Nations to Headstrong Youths, 1950 | |
| Egypt's Gamel Abdel Nasser Justifies | |
| Nationalizing the Suez Canal, 1956 | |
| State Department Planners | |
| Assess the Nasser Threat, 1956 | |
| Congress Backs the Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957 | |
| 'The King and I' Tells a Tale of Sentimental Modernization, 1956 | |
| W.W. Rostow Theorizes the Five Stages of Modernization, 1960 | |
| A Peace Corps Volunteer Describes Life in Ghana, 1964 | |
| Essays | |
| The Special U.S.-Israeli Relationship | |
| Cultural Affinity and Cold War Alignment | |
| Musical Modernization | |
| "The King and I" | |
| Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman | |
| Cultural Cooperation | |
| The Peace Corps in Ghana | |
| Further Reading | |
| Cuba And The Missile Crisis | |
| Documents | |
| CIA Assassination Plots Against | |
| Cuban Leader Fidel Castro (1960-1965), 1975 | |
| Guidelines for Operation Mongoose, 1962 | |
| Missiles Photographed in Cuba: President | |
| Meets with His Advisers, October 16, 1962 | |
| Addresses the Nation, October 22, 1962 | |
| Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev | |
| Asks for a U.S. No-Invasion Pledge, October 26, 1962 | |
| Requests U.S. Removal of Jupiter Missiles from Turkey, October 27, 1962 | |
| Kennedy and ExComm Consider Trading the Jupiter | |
| Missiles in Turkey, October 27, 1962 | |
| Soviet Official Anastas | |
| I. Mikoyanand Fidel Castro Debate and Review the Crisis, November 4-5, 1962 | |
| Essays | |
| Patient Diplomacy and Measured Pressure | |
| JFK's Finest Hour | |
| Spinning Out of Control | |
| Kennedy's War Against Cuba and the Missile Crisis | |
| Further Reading | |
| The Vietnam War | |
| Documents | |
| The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945 | |
| Final Declaration of the Geneva | |
| Conference on Indochina, 1954 | |
| North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen | |
| Giap Outlines His People's War Stratgey, 1961 | |
| President | |
| Weighs the Options with Senator Richard Russell, 1964 | |
| The Tonkin Gulf Resolution | |
| Authorizes the President to Use Force, 1964 | |
| The Chinese Leader | |
| Urges the North Vietnamese to Fight On, 1965 | |
| Fulbright Decries the "Arrogance of Power," 1966 | |
| Former Secretary of Defense | |
| Concludes That He Erred, 1995 | |
| Essays | |
| International Capitalism and Communism | |
| Collide with Vietnamese Nationalism | |
| LBJ's Reluctant Crusade to Save South Vietnam | |
| An Unwinnable War | |
| Further Reading | |
| Grand Strategy, and D?tente | |
| Documents | |
| The Nixon Doctrine Calls on Asian | |
| Nations to Take Responsibility for Their Own Security, 1969 | |
| Kissinger Advocates a Hard-line | |
| Toward Chile's Salvadore Allende, 1970 | |
| Kissinger Delineates a Five-Point | |
| Covert Program for Chile, 1970 | |
| Nixon Discusses "Philosophy" with Mao Zedong, 1972 | |
| Nixon and Kissinger Bomb the "Bejesus" | |
| Out of North Vietnam, 1972 | |
| U.N. Security Council Resolution 338 | |
| Calls for Arab-Israeli Ceasefire Negotiations, 1973 | |
| Israeli Prime Minister | |
| Out a Tough Negotiating Position, 1973 | |
| PLO Chair Yasser Arafat Condemns | |
| Zionism and Western Imperialism, 1974 | |
| Secretary of State Kissinger | |
| Defines and Defends D?tente, 1974 | |
| Essays | |
| D?tente: Restraining Dissent and Pursuing Peace | |
| The Irrationality of War in Vietnam | |
| Peace Through D?tente | |
| Short-term Success at the Expense of Enduring Peace | |
| Further Reading | |
| The Cold War Ends And The Post-Cold War Era Begins | |
| Documents | |
| President | |
| Condemns the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1980 | |
| The CIA Analyzes Soviet | |
| Prospects in Afghanistan, 1980 | |
| President Ronald Reagan | |
| Denounces the Soviet Union, 1981 | |
| Reagan and Gorbachev Spar | |
| Over Nuclear Weapons Reduction, 1986 | |
| The Soviet Reformer Georgi | |
| Arbatov Explains the "New Thinking" in the Soviet Union, 1989 | |
| Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh | |
| Reports on Official Wrong-doing in Iran Contra, 1992 | |
| President | |
| Proclaims Cold War Victory, 1990 | |
| President | |
| Applauds America's Globalism | |
| Warns Against a New Isolationism, 1995 | |
| Essays | |
| Reagan's Peace Through Strength | |
| Gorbachev's Dream of World Peace | |
| Odd Arne Westad? | |
| Reagan's Cold War Military | |
| Anti-Americanism in Afghanistan | |
| Cold War Triumphalism and U.S.-led Globalization | |
| Further Reading | |
| 9-11, And The Middle East. Documents | |
| President | |
| Asks, "Why Do They Hate Us?" 2001 | |
| Al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden | |
| Proclaims, "God Has Given Them Back What They Deserve," 2001 | |
| Bush Excoriates an Axis of Evil, 2002 | |
| The Bush Administration | |
| Articulates a Strategy of Preemption, 2002 | |
| French President Jacques | |
| Chirac Defends UN Multilateralism, 2003 | |
| The Scholar Rashid | |
| Khalidi Explains | |
| Anti-Americanism in the Middle East, 2004 | |
| Israel's Prime Minister | |
| Lauds the U.S.-Israeli Partnership | |
| States Peace Terms, 2006 | |
| Secretary of State-designate | |
| Diplomacy and "Smart Power," 2009 | |
| President | |
| Vows to Temper Power with Negotiation, 2009 | |
| Essays | |
| Bush's Bold Grand Strategy and Mixed Performance | |
| Bush's Ideological Excess | |
| Scandalous Incompetence | |
| Further Reading | |
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