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

Eisenhower’s failure to combat Senator McCarthy until much damage had been done at home and to America’s reputation abroad expos ...

The shared experience of the Second World War began to shift attitudes. Black and white sol- diers had died for the same cause. ...

months, as the troops remained to protect their rights: sensational conflicts reached the newspa- pers and other media, but thou ...

tance of Syngman Rhee, who did not want to end the war short of unification on South Korea’s terms, a truce was concluded. The f ...

Kai-shek successfully reconquering the mainland from his Taiwanese base was no longer credible. The following December an Americ ...

power struggles. Governed by corrupt military regimes, Guatemala cried out for political, social and economic reform. The Eisenh ...

stature and popularity available to rally anti-Castro political groups. Eisenhower therefore withheld his approval of military i ...

happy’, a man who might through miscalculation plunge the world over the precipice into a nuclear holocaust. In 1954, as secret ...

While Europe was seen as the primary scene of action in the Cold War, America’s Western allies were fighting communism in Asia: ...

ter, no government or communications. ‘I ask you’, Eisenhower challenged his military chiefs, ‘what would the civilised world do ...

UN, and to accepting some of the Hungarian refugees fleeing across the Austrian frontier. Eisenhower’s and Dulles’s Middle Easte ...

American support, Chiang Kai-shek’s Taiwan continued to occupy China’s seat on the Security Council of the United Nations. Meanw ...

humiliate Eisenhower, Khrushchev broke off the summit meeting before it had got properly started. Not that the U-2 issue was a n ...

1 Part XI THE RECOVERY OF WESTERN EUROPE IN THE 1950s AND 1960s ...

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No one could have foreseen the remarkable trans- formation undergone by a defeated Germany in just one decade. Two Germanies had ...

Allied attitudes on the issue of German rearma- ment was not universally popular, since only a few years before German militaris ...

abuse by simple party majorities in the parlia- mentary assembly. The strong element of pro- portional representation allows a v ...

stamp on a broad pragmatic party that could attract progressive liberals, trade unionists, farmers and conservatives. Adenauer h ...

determination and self-respect. Now, he declared, was the German people’s chance to break deci- sively with the social structure ...