A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

All three government parties collaborated on the urgent task of post-war reconstruction; unem- ployment, rampant inflation and s ...

Soviet Union retained Bessarabia (Moldavia) and northern Bukovina, which they had first occupied in 1940. Finland had to confirm ...

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1 Part VII THE UNITED STATES AND THE BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR, 1945–8 ...

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As seen from Europe during the first post-war years, the US was a land of plenty. The GIs, when they came to London or Paris, lo ...

that which followed the First World War? Would Roosevelt’s New Deal and its network of benefits for those in need survive the de ...

the crucial Senate committees set out to push back the frontiers of the New Deal. Income tax was redistributed to favour the bet ...

quickly towards conditions of freer trade and unimpeded currency exchanges in order to avoid a repetition of the 1930s, the Amer ...

as the future of Germany, agreements that would allow East and West to accept each other’s dif- ferences and yet be able to live ...

emigrate to the US. Something of a special rela- tionship had developed. China became the princi- pal preoccupation of American ...

had been taken of the Chinese communists, if it had been understood that the communists too were nationalists and that relations ...

pre-war feudal structure of Japanese society, to deprive the military-aristocratic and business elite that had run Japan before ...

statesmen, who had ‘advised’ the emperor and who behind the scenes had once exercised much real authority. MacArthur observed or ...

them from starvation. Yoshida was less concerned with a democratic transformation than with recovery, and he regarded with deepe ...

In Germany overwhelmingly large numbers of Red Army divisions and far fewer American and British troops faced each other across ...

weakness of the Soviet Union would force the Soviet leadership to pursue limited goals. But whatever utopias of distant future w ...

Soviet desires for a revision of the Straits had been raised by Stalin during the wartime Allied conferences. The Turks had secu ...

difficulties was needed to persuade Congress, and Dean Acheson supplied it. Aid to Greece was placed in the context of combating ...

was that the European countries should first reach agreement among themselves on what they could do and what help was needed fro ...