ABSTRACT

First Published in 2017. Now thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the revolutionary period to the present. This is Volume II and is from 1895. The historiographical essays at the end of each chapter have been revised to reflect the most recent scholarship. The History of American Foreign Policy chronicles events and policies with emphasis on the international setting and constraints within which American policy-makers had to operate; the domestic pressures on those policy-makers; and the ideologies, preferences, and personal idiosyncrasies of the leaders themselves.

chapter 1|24 pages

Europe, America, and World War I

chapter 3|22 pages

U.S. Foreign Policy Between the World Wars

chapter 6|36 pages

Harry Truman and the Onset of the Cold War

chapter 7|25 pages

The New Look of Dwight D. Eisenhower

chapter 9|25 pages

The Vietnam War

chapter 10|24 pages

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger

Manipulating the Balance of Power

chapter 11|25 pages

Time Bombs in the Middle East

chapter 13|15 pages

The End of the Cold War

chapter 15|22 pages

George W. Bush, 9/11, and the War in Iraq