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Hace 8 horas · And Acheson was convinced that NATO was essential for the “restoration of the economic and political health of the world.” From the outset of the Cold War, this link between economic stability and security was not only pivotal in the formation of NATO but also in Washington’s broader strategy for deterring the Soviet Union.
Hace 5 días · Acheson talks about foreign policy matters during the John F. Kennedy administration and his advice and activities during that time. He also reads the text of several letters he wrote to JFK. Acheson, Dean G.: Oral History Interview - JFK #1, 4/27/1964 | JFK Library
Hace 1 día · The allure, and the tragedy, of “America first” is that a superpower’s good fortune will shield it—temporarily—from the consequences of its own bad decision-making. In time, the United States, too, would rue the rise of an “America first” world—but only after so many other countries had come to rue it first.
Hace 2 días · As US Secretary of State Dean Acheson later reflected, "The Berlin blockade was the first major crisis of the Cold War, and the Airlift was the first great Western achievement." [5] It convinced US leaders that firmness was the only viable policy against Soviet provocations, shaping the strategy of containment.
Hace 4 días · Dean Acheson, so as to get the Senate’s approval on NATO’s treaty of 1949, had to declare that the USA had no intention of sending large forces to Europe on short or permanent basis (Mearsheimer, The Future of America’s Continental Commitment 1998).
Hace 1 día · The long-forgotten story of the Shanghai Power Company and the bombers sent to destroy it offers important lessons. It tells us about the missteps and misjudgements that could push two superpowers to war and devastate the world. Ever since November 1948, when the PLA broke out of northern China and began pushing down the lower Yangtze valley ...
Their opponents have come to be collectively known as the Nationalists, led by former Secretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson as well as Senators John Henry Stelle and Robert S. Kerr. Strictly opposing all forms of world government that would infringe upon the national sovereignty of the United States, they argue that an Atlantic Union would compromise the American national identity and bind it ...
