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