History 130 Part III Readings Flashcards
Kennan Long Telegram (1946)
Peaceful coexistence impossible due to deep antiwestern reservoir in Soviet Union
NSC-68 (1950)
reduce power of USSR
develop American military readiness
strengthen relations w/ non-Soviet nations
organize resources of free world
Lawrence, “Fractured World of Cold War”
Cold War defined by divided world: US free world, Soviet bloc, rising China, third world
US tries to confront adversaries & stabilize existing divisions in order to manage fractured world
Leffler, “American Grand Strategy, 1945-1952”
Truman dedicated to containing Soviet Union, preventing Soviet influence in Europe & Asia
Grand Strategy is to connect industrial cores of Western Europe & Northeast Asia to US
Heefner, “Overseas Bases”
US acquired bases to promote its strategic aims
Bases raised questions of sovereignty, jurisdiction
Eisenhower “Farewell Address” (1961)
American supremacy, duty to maintain peace through military establishment
Kennedy “Inagural Address” (1961)
Loyalty to old allies
Both sides join in creating peaceful new world
Fight tyranny, poverty, war
Holloway “Escalation of Cold War 1945-1962)
nuclear weapons escalated war, hydrogen bomb, nuclear deterrence organized US policy
Maier “World Economy and Cold War”
Two economic systems had to provide resources to sustain military & support allies
“The Choice for Escalation”
LBJ: self-determination, prevent communism in China from taking over East Asia, need independent South Vietnam
McNamara: advocates for military expansion in Vietnam
Ball: cutting our losses in Vietnam
Goscha “Decolonization & US Intervention in Asia”
US has history of decolonizing empires & preserving empires, Diem
Hersberg, “Cuban Missile Crisis”
Kennedy’s belligerence, Khrushchev trying to redress Soviet nuclear inferiority
King “Beyond Vietnam” (1968)
opposition to US policy in Vietnam, US has brought destruction on Vietnam, calls for end of bombing
Kissinger, “Moral Foundations” (1975)
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Hanhimaki “Detent and Reconfiguration of Superpower Relations”
significance of detente between Soviet Union & US
triangulation of US relations w/ Soviet Union & China
