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American foreign relations since independence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Burns, Richard Dean (Author), Siracusa, Joseph M. (Author), Flanagan, Jason C. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2013]
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations > History.
Political culture > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The diplomacy of the Revolution
  • The new republic in a world at war
  • The War of 1812: reestablishing American independence
  • The Monroe Doctrine and latin american independence
  • Manifest Destiny triumphant: Oregon, Texas, and California
  • A house divided: diplomacy during the Civil War
  • Territorial and commercial expansionism: Alaska, the Caribbean, and the Far East
  • War with Spain and the new Manifest Destiny
  • The United States adjusts to its new status
  • Woodrow Wilson and world at war
  • The slow death of Versailles
  • World War II: the grand alliance
  • A new global struggle: founding of the UN to the Cold War-- Crises, conflicts and coexistence
  • The United States and Southeast Asia: Laos Cambodia, and Vietnam
  • Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War
  • The United States and the Middle East: Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq
  • Twenty-first century challenges.