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Author Foster, H. Schuyler (Harry Schuyler), 1905-

Title Activism replaces isolationism : U.S. public attitudes, 1940-1975 / by H. Schuyler Foster
Edition First edition
Published Washington, D.C. : Foxhall Press, [1983]
©1983

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Description xi, 407 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments vi -- Abbreviations x -- Presidents and Secretaries of State 1940-1975 xi -- -- -- I Significance of Public Attitudes on Foreign Policy 1 -- Impacts of Public Public Opinion Polls -- Opinion Process Analyzing Public Comment -- Queries about Significance This Book -- Measuring Public Opinion Perspective -- -- -- PART ONE: ESTABLISHING POSTWAR POLICIES -- (1940-1950) -- -- II Isolationism Yields (1940-1946) 19 -- Before Pearl Harbor San Francisco Conference -- A Peace Organization First Year of United Nations -- Dumbarton Oaks; Yalta -- -- III U.S. Aid Policies (1941-1950) 36 -- UNRRA Greek-Turkish Aid -- End of Lend-Lease Marshall Plan -- The British Loan Point Four -- -- IV In Search of Security (1945-1949) 53 -- Soviet Aims; Germany Prague (1948); Cold War -- United Nations; Rio Pact 1948 Election; China -- Atomic Weapons; Arms Reduction NATO; Opinion Trends -- -- V Public Attitudes and The State Department -- (1944-1950) 69 -- Public Interests after War Security Risks -- Individual Attitude Patterns McCarthy Charges -- Knowledge of State Department Role of Partisanship -- -- VI Assessing International Solutions (1946-1950) 80 -- Disappointment with the UN Palestine (1945-1950) -- World Government? Trade (1945-1950) -- Human Rights Occupation of Japan (1945-50) -- Immigration (1943-1948) Conclusions -- vii -- -- -- -- -- PART TWO: IMPLEMENTING BASIC POLICIES (1950-1965) -- -- VII Korean War and Its Impact On Policy (1950-1952) 103 -- Attitudes on War Japan (1950-52) -- After Chinese Intervention Impact of War on Other Policies -- MacArthur Dismissal United Nations (1950-52) -- -- VIII Enter Eisenhower and Dulles 130 -- Over-all Shift in Attitudes State Department (1953-55) -- Korea; Indochina; China United Nations (1953-56) -- Geneva Conference; SEATO Latin America; Guatemala -- -- IX Europe;Middle East (1950-1956) 154 -- Arms; Atoms; Geneva Palestine & War (1950-56) -- Europe After The Summit Immigration; Trade; Aid (1953-56) -- -- X Eisenhower's Second Term (1957-1958) 177 -- Eisenhower Doctrine 1958 Soviet Challenge -- China; Europe; Arms Anti-Aerican Riots; Lebanon -- Sputnik and After Arms Talks; Quemoy (Again) -- -- XI Challenges Continue (1959-1960), 202 -- Berlin; Castro Khrushchev Visit -- From Dules to Herter Paris Summit; Arms Talk -- U.S.-Soviet Relations; Europe Far East; Latin America -- China; Indochina Africa; UN -- -- XII Kennedy Enters; Problems Continue (1961) 225 -- Bay of Pigs; Berlin Nuclear Testing -- Laos; China Africa; UN -- Berlin Wall Aid & Trade -- -- XIII Before and After Cuban Crisis (1962-1963) 241 -- Soviet Relations; Europe Europe; NATO (MLF) -- Cuban Crisis; Aftermath Test Ban Treaty; UNGA -- -- XIV LBJ "Continues" (1963-1965) 259 -- Panama; Asia China; Dominican Crisis (1965) -- Presidential Year Immigration; Arms; UN -- NATO; Trade and Aid Summary -- -- PART THREE: MODIFYING FOREIGN POLICIES (1968-1975) -- -- XV Viet-Nam War: Other Topics (1965-1968) 281 -- Johns Hopkins Address 1967 Escalation; East-West Trade -- 1965 Peace Offensive 1968: Escalation Considered -- 1966: War, PRC; UN Tet Offensive; Johnson Decisions -- -- -- -- -- XVI Nixon Policies (1969-1971) 304 -- First Trips; Viet-Nam China & Russia; Trade & Aid -- Youth's Role; Defense Pledges 1971: "Pentagon Papers" -- Nixon Doctrine Economic Policies; Defense -- -- XVII Viet-Nam Accord-And After (1972-1973) 329 -- Peking Summit; War Powers Viet-Nam; Economic Policy -- SALT; Moscow Summit Summit in U.S.; Panama -- Election Campaign; UN Attitudes Toward Wars -- -- XVIII Kissinger Becomes Secretary of State (1973-1975) 347 -- 1973 War; War Powers Moscow Summit -- 1974 Attitudes Aid and Human Rights -- Panama; IDA; Viet-Nam Vladivostok; Energy; Food -- Interdependence Comprehensive Poll -- Mideast; Indian Blast Viet-Nam Concluded -- -- XIX Major Opinion Developments (1940-1975) 375 -- Establishing Post-War Policies Stability of Opinion -- Relations with Communist Opinion Changes; Policy Changes -- Countries; with Allies Defense Pledges -- United Nations Foreign Policy Goals -- Trade; Aid; Immigration Adequacy of Public Information -- -- Bibliographical Note 393 -- Index 395 -- About the Author 408
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140096 -- Public opinion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006218
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098 -- Public opinion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006218
LC no. 83081284
ISBN 0961112816