ABSTRACT

This study provides an analysis of the role the United States alliance with Nationalist China played in US strategy to contain first the Sino-Soviet alliance and then China during the 1950s and 1960s.

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|16 pages

Nationalist China and the Korean War

chapter 4|20 pages

Formation of the U.S.-Nationalist Alliance

chapter 5|19 pages

Containment Versus Liberation

chapter 6|18 pages

Covert Operations Against the Mainland

chapter 7|36 pages

The Offshore Islands

chapter 11|16 pages

Taiwan and the Vietnam War

chapter 13|16 pages

U.S. Policy and the Taiwan Model

chapter 14|16 pages

The 1971 Debacle at the United Nations

chapter 15|18 pages

The Alliance and U.S.-PRC Rapprochement

chapter 16|15 pages

Conclusions