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Author:

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Title:

Rise to globalism : American foreign policy since 1938 / Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas G. Brinkley.

Edition:

9th rev. ed.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xvi, 570 p. : maps.

Subject:

United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
United States--Foreign relations--1989-

Other Authors:

Brinkley, Douglas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Eisenhower, Dulles, and the irreconcilable conflict -- From Hungary and Suez to Cuba -- Kennedy and the new frontiers -- Vietnam : paying the cost of containment -- Nixon, Detente, 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 -- Clinton and the new post Cold War order -- The tragedy of September 11, 2001 -- After the attack and into Iraq.

ISBN:

0142004944
9780142004944

LCCN:

2010033860

Locations:

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)