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Informationen zum Autor By Howard Jones Klappentext This book is a narrative history of America's foreign affairs from 1897 to the present that focuses on the major personalities and events from the William McKinley administration through President George W. Bush. Zusammenfassung This book is a narrative history of America's foreign affairs from 1897 to the present that focuses on the major personalities and events from the William McKinley administration through President George W. Bush. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: U.S. Imperialism and the New Manifest Destiny, 1897-1900Chapter 2: Theodore Roosevelt and the Search for World Order, 1900-1913Chapter 3: Woodrow Wilson and Missionary Diplomacy: Prologue to U.S. Entry into World War I, 1913-1917Chapter 4: World War I and the League of Nations, 1917-1921Chapter 5: The Independent Internationalism of the United States, 1921-1933Chapter 6: The Coming of World War II, 1933-1939Chapter 7: From Europe to Pearl Harbor, 1939-1941Chapter 8: Wartime Diplomacy and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1945Chapter 9: Cold War and Containment in Europe and the Near East, 1945-1950Chapter 10: Cold War and Containment in East Asia, 1950-1953Chapter 11: Containment Continued: The Eisenhower Years, 1953-1961Chapter 12: Containment at the Brink: Kennedy and Cuba, 1961-1963Chapter 13: Containment in Collapse: Johnson and Vietnam, 1963-1969Chapter 14: Vietnamization through Détente: A New Containment, 1969-1977Chapter 15: The New World Order: Jimmy Carter and the Diplomacy of Human Rights, 1977-1981Chapter 16: Cold War II: Reagan and the Revival of Containment, 1981-1989Chapter 17: The End of the Cold War and Regional Conflicts, 1989-2001Chapter 18: President George W. Bush and Missionary Diplomacy: 9/11, the Pre-Emptive War with Iraq, and the Global War on Terrorism, 2001-
