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Churchill Cold War Warrior

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Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2024-09-30

Churchill Cold War Warrior written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-30 with History categories.

In Churchill Cold War Warrior, renowned military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones reassesses Winston Churchill’s neglected postwar career. He explains how in an unguarded moment Winston inadvertently sowed the seeds for the Cold War by granting Stalin control of Eastern Europe. Famously Churchill, at Fulton, then warned of the growing danger created by this partition of the continent. Winston after the Second World War wanted to prove a point. Shunned by the electorate in 1945, instead of retiring he was determined to be Prime Minister for a second time. Biding his time he watched in dismay as Britain scuttled from India and Palestine and weathered the East-West confrontation over Berlin. He finally got his way in 1951 and took the reins of a country with drastically waning powers. Churchill was confronted by a world in turmoil, with an escalating Cold War that had gone hot in Korea and an unraveling British Empire. Communism and nationalism proved a heady cocktail that fanned the flames of widespread conflict. He had to contain rebellions in Kenya and Malaya while clinging on in Egypt. Desperately he also sought to avoid a Third World War and the use of nuclear weapons by reuniting the 'Big Three'.

Inside The Cold War

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Author : Chris Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-09-01

Inside The Cold War written by Chris Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-01 with categories.

The term "Cold War" was first used in public by Winston Churchill, speaking at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in March 1946. The Department of Defense has recently defined the period of the conflict from 2 September 1945, the date Japan formally surrendered after World War II, to 26 December 1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as Soviet president and the Soviet Union was disbanded. The Cold War was a significant historical anomaly for the United States. We had never fought a war over such an extended period-more than 40 years. Downsizing after such a lengthy time was very p a i n f u l because, for the first time in our recent history, everyone in uniform was a volunteer when the conflict was over . . . and never had so many served in fighting a war. An estimated 22 million men and women were engaged in one way or another. While a significant number of our military forces were engaged with the Soviet Union, the warriors in the front lines day in and day Out were the members of the Strategic Air Command...known simply as SAC by most. The command stood up in March 1946, with 37,000 warriors, peaked with almost 283,000 men and women in 1962, and was disbanded with the stand-up of the United States Strategic Command in June 1992. I can think of no one more qualified or prepared to tell the Cold War story than Maj Gen Christopher S. Adams, USAF, Retired. In the trenches as a bomber pilot and missile crew member for most of his career, he was part of that professional group expected to perform flawlessly on every mission, simulator ride, or alert tour. A tough but compassionate leader, Chris was one of the most respected, revered, and effective wing and air division commanders in the history of SAC. His leadership footprints are still visible in the halls of US Strategic Command even today. He has a rare talent for unbiased observation, an uncanny ability to cut through the chaff, and the savvy to tell a gripping story. This book, Inside the Cold War, tells that story, in my view, better than anything published to date. We fought the Cold War with hundreds of thousands of dedicated professionals like Capt Chris Adams . . . we won the Cold War because of the extraordinary leadership and vision of a relatively few senior officers like Maj Gen Christopher Adams.

The First Cold Warrior

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Author : Elizabeth Spalding
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2006-05-26

The First Cold Warrior written by Elizabeth Spalding and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-26 with History categories.

From the first days of his unexpected presidency in April 1945 through the landmark NSC 68 of 1950, Harry Truman was central to the formation of America’s grand strategy during the Cold War and the subsequent remaking of U.S. foreign policy. Others are frequently associated with the terminology of and responses to the perceived global Communist threat after the Second World War: Walter Lippmann popularized the term “cold war,” and George F. Kennan first used the word “containment” in a strategic sense. Although Kennan, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall have been seen as the most influential architects of American Cold War foreign policy, The First Cold Warrior draws on archives and other primary sources to demonstrate that Harry Truman was the key decision maker in the critical period between 1945 and 1950. In a significant reassessment of the thirty-third president and his political beliefs, Elizabeth Edwards Spalding contends that it was Truman himself who defined and articulated the theoretical underpinnings of containment. His practical leadership style was characterized by policies and institutions such as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Berlin airlift, the Department of Defense, and the National Security Council. Part of Truman’s unique approach—shaped by his religious faith and dedication to anti-communism—was to emphasize the importance of free peoples, democratic institutions, and sovereign nations. With these values, he fashioned a new liberal internationalism, distinct from both Woodrow Wilson’s progressive internationalism and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s liberal pragmatism, which still shapes our politics. Truman deserves greater credit for understanding the challenges of his time and for being America’s first cold warrior. This reconsideration of Truman’s overlooked statesmanship provides a model for interpreting the international crises facing the United States in this new era of ideological conflict.

Winston Churchill S Last Campaign

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Author : John W. Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Winston Churchill S Last Campaign written by John W. Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Largely because of his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech, Churchill is often remembered as a determined Cold Warrior. Yet, for all his fervent anti-communism, he saw the creation of the Western Alliance as a step not towards war, but towards negotiations with the USSR. John Young shows how, as Prime Minister in the 1950s, he hoped for a summit meeting with Soviet leaders, an end to the Cold War, and an era of peaceful scientific advancement by humankind. He exmaines the reasons why Churchill failed in this, his last great political campaign, reasons which included his own failing health, the scepticism of allies abroad. and the opposition of his ministers at home. Nonetheless, argues the author, the outlook which Churchill developed in the first decade of the Cold War made him the father of the European detente. This is the first full critical analysis of the issue which dominated the last active years of one of the greatest statesmen of the twentieth century.

Molotov

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Author : Geoffrey Roberts
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01

Molotov written by Geoffrey Roberts and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Political Science categories.

More than a top Soviet bureaucrat

The Iron Curtain

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Author : Fraser J. Harbutt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1988-10-13

The Iron Curtain written by Fraser J. Harbutt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-10-13 with History categories.

It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase "Iron Curtain." This speech, according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public definition of, the Truman administration's concurrent turn from accommodation to confrontation with the Soviet Union. It provoked a response from Stalin that goes far to explain the advent of the Cold War a few weeks later. This book is at once a fascinating biography of Winston Churchill as the leading protagonist of an Anglo-American political and military front against the Soviet Union and a penetrating re-examination of diplomatic relations between the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. in the postwar years. Pointing out the Americocentric bias in most histories of this period, Harbutt shows that the Europeans played a more significant part in precipitating the Cold War than most people realize. He stresses that the same pattern of events that earlier led America belatedly into two world wars, namely the initial separation and then the sudden coming together of the European and American political arenas, appeared here as well. From the combination of biographical and structural approaches, a new historical landscape emerges. The United States appears at times to be the rather passive object of competing Soviet and British maneuvers. The turning point came with the crisis of early 1946, which here receives its fullest analysis to date, when the Truman administration in a systematic but carefully veiled and still widely misunderstood reorientation of policy (in which Churchill figured prominently) led the Soviet Union into the political confrontation that brought on the Cold War.

Churchill Cold War Warrior

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Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2024-09-30

Churchill S Cold War

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Author : Philip White
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2013

Churchill S Cold War written by Philip White and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.

1945 was a chaotic year, both for the world and for Winston Churchill. Soon after the death of Roosevelt, Churchill arrived at the Potsdam Conference expecting to broker peace with Stalin and Truman, only to find himself unable to attend the final summit sessions following a notoriously lopsided General Election result. Having spent the late 1930s warning of Nazism, Churchill found himself again sounding the alarm about the Communist threat to the freedom that he and his Allies had won at such a cost.

Churchill S Cold War

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Author : Philip White
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2012

This text provides the history of Winston Churchill's 1946 trip to Fulton, Missouri, where he delivered his Iron Curtain speech (Sinews of peace address), which served to fundamentally define the dangers of Soviet totalitarian Communism.

The Making Of A Cold Warrior

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Author : Robert Louis Messer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

The Making Of A Cold Warrior written by Robert Louis Messer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Authors, American categories.

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