War and Cold War in American Foreign Policy 1942–62

Abstract

Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts. Leading diplomatic historians address familiar subjects from new angles. They offer new evidence about the risks run and the costs incurred in the prosecution of the Cold War, from Korea to the Caribbean. And they provide up-to-date accounting of mid-twentieth century American diplomacy's global purposes and consequences. Introduction: Between past and prologue / Dale Carter & Robin Clifton -- The Second World War: not (just) the origins of the Cold War / Warren F. Kimball -- Unconditional surrender: the dawn of the atomic age / Lloyd C. Gardner -- Mobilizing culture: the state-private network and the CIA in the early Cold War / W. Scott Lucas -- Challenge and response: Arnold Toynbee and the United States during the Cold War / Richard Crockatt -- Waging limited conflict: the impact of the Korean War on Anglo-American relations, 1950-1953 / Peter Lowe -- War crimes and historical memory: the United Nations occupation of North Korea in 1950 / Bruce Cumings -- The United States, Argentina, and the end of the first Perón government, 1953-1955 / Mario Rapoport & Claudio Spiguel -- The real gap in the Cuban missile crisis: the post-Cold War historiography and the continued omission of Cuba / Nicola Miller.