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Informationen zum Autor Jeremi Suri is the E. Gordon Fox Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is the author of Henry Kissinger and the American Century (2007), The Global Revolutions of 1968 (2006), and Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (2003). Klappentext Bringing together more than 50 primary documents from the period, this volume offers a revealing picture of how Americans have interacted with the wider world since 1898. The documents capture the complexity of the issues at stake and give readers a first-hand look at the personalities, arguments, and events that shaped conflict and cooperation. Editor Jeremi Suri provides a clear and accessible framework for studying the period with a preliminary essay that introduces the reader to the key issues and debates, informative document headnotes which contextualize the materials, discussion questions, and a bibliography for further study. Discussing US foreign policy not only in terms of leaders and states but also in terms of social movements, cultural ideas, and images, this is a comprehensive examination of a subject which continues to play an important part in US history. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together more than 50 documents which examineforeign policy not only in terms of leaders and states! but alsothrough social movements! cultures! ideas! and images! to providecomprehensive understanding of how Americans have interacted withthe wider world since 1898. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Series Editors' Preface x Acknowledgments xii Source Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: War, Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism 7 1 Secretary of State, John Hay, Open Door Notes, 1899-1900 7 2 President William McKinley, Account of his Decision to Occupy the Philippines, 1898 11 3 The Platt Amendment, 1901 13 4 Jane Addams, Critique of American Militarism, 1902 15 5 President Theodore Roosevelt, ''Corollary'' to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 19 Chapter 2: The Great War and Its Aftermath 24 1 George M. Cohan, ''Over There,'' 1917 24 2 President Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Address, 1918 26 3 Senator Robert LaFollette, Opposition to President Wilson's War Message, 1917 32 4 W. E. B. Dubois, Comments on the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles, and the Politics of Race, 1918 36 5 Charles Lindbergh, Account of the First Solo Nonstop Airplane Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean, 1927 40 6 The Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 45 Chapter 3: The Great Depression, Fascist Fears, and Social Change in America 51 1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933 51 2 Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Meeting with Adolf Hitler, 1933 56 3 Father Charles Coughlin, Radio attack on ''Internationalism,'' 1931 62 4 Charles Lindbergh, Speech to an America First Committee Meeting, 1941 66 5 The Atlantic Charter, 1941 69 Chapter 4: The Second World War 72 1 Lawrence T. Kagawa, the Internment of Japanese-Americans, 1942 72 2 President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin at the Tehran Conference, 1943 74 3 Dwight Eisenhower, the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps, 1945 78 4 President Harry Truman, Diary Entries on the Potsdam Conference and his Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan, 1945 80 5 The Atomic Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki, 1945 83 Chapter 5: The Early Cold War 85 1 George F. Kennan, ''Long Telegram'' on the Soviet Union, 1946 85 2 The Truman Doctrine, 1947 90 3 Assistant Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, the ''Loss'' of China, 1950 93 4 Senator Joseph McCarthy, Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950 96 5 NSC 68, 1950 98 6 President D...
