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America as a World Leader

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Contents

• America as World Leader: External Power
• American Foreign Relations
  • Realpolitik or Human Rights
• Relations with the Soviet Union [also see above "Cold War]
• Relations with China
• The Korean War
• The Vietnam War

America as a World Leader: External Power

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American Foreign Relations

• WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Democracy and Foreign Policy [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Human Rights [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Intelligence Community [At Internet Archive, from Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Nuclear Weapons [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Reagan Administration [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Clinton Administration [At Mt. Holyoke]
• John F. Kennedy: The Space Challenge, Sept 13, 1962 [At this Site]
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: The New Isolationism, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1952, [At The Atlantic, subscription required, subscription required]
• Walter Lippman: Mr Kennan and Reappraisal in Europe, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1958, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
• Benjamin R. Barber: Jihad Vs. McWorld,  The Atlantic Monthly, March 1992 [At The Atlantic, subscription required, subscription required]
• Realpolitik or Human Rights
  • Senator Fulbright: Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis, September 15, 1965  [At this Site]
    A wide-ranging critique of US foreign policy.
  • Foreign Aid and Human Rights, 1976  [At USInfo]
    In 1976, Congress overrode a presidential veto to enact this human rights policy into the International Security and Arms Export Control Act.
  • Jimmy Carter:  Human Rights and Foreign Policy, 1977 [At USInfo]
    A commencement speech given at Notre Dame University in June 1977.
  • Sanctions Against South Africa, 1986 [At USInfo]
  • Democracy and Foreign Policy, 1990 [At USInfo]
    Secretary of State James Baker addresss the issue in a speech to the World Affairs Council in March 1990,

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Relations with the Soviet Union [also see under Cold War]

• Soviet Reaction to the Baghdad Pact, 1955   [At this Site]

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Relations with China

• American Views on the Situation In China, 1947 [At this Site]
  Statement by General Marshall, January 7, 1947
• Dean Acheson: United States Position on China, August 1949 [At this Site]
  An acute critique of Nationalist/Koumintang failures.
• John K. Fairbank: China: Time for a Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1957 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  Evaluation of US policy options toward newly Communist mainland China.
• James C. Thomson Jr.: Dragon Under Glass: Time for a New China Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1967 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  Argued that the time had come for the United States to reconcile itself with Communist China.
• Nixon in China

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The Korean War

• Andrei A. Gromyko: On American Intervention In Korea, 1950 [At this Site]
• Report of The United Nations Commission on Korea, 1950 [At this Site]

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The Vietnam War

• WEB Vietnam War Documents and Links
• WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Vietnam [At Mt. Holyoke]
• Ho Chi Minh (1890-1968): Program for Communist of Indochina, 1930, excerpts [At this Site]
• Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945 [At this Site]
• The Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference: On Restoring Peace in Indochina, July 21, 1954 [At this Site]
• The Manifesto of The Laodong Party, February1951
• Two Letters to Ngo Dinh Diem [At Wiretap]
  Eisenhower, October 23, 1954 (Department of State Bulletin, November 15, 1954): and Kennedy, December 14, 1961 (Department of State Bulletin, January 1, 1962)
• President Eisenhower: Letter  to Ngo Dinh Diem, October 23, 1954  [At this Site]
  Beginning US "humanitarian" aid.
• Viet Cong Program, 1962  [At this Site]
• Charles de Gaulle: France's Attitude Toward US Policy in Vietnam, 1964  [At this Site]
• Tonkin Gulf Incident, 1964 [At Yale]
• The Tonkin Bay Resolution, 1964  [At this Site]
• US State Department: North Vietnamese Aggression, 1965  [At this Site]
• State Department: White Paper on Vietnam Feb. 27, 1965 [At Wiretap]
• U.S. State Department: Aggression from the North, February 27, 1965 [At this Site]
• President Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh: Letter Exchange, 1967  [At this Site]
• John Kerry, for Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Statement to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, 1971 [At this Site]
• War Powers Resolution Nov. 7, 1973  [At USInfo]

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