Fearing the Worst : : How Korea Transformed the Cold War / / Samuel F. Wells.
After World War II, the escalating tensions of the Cold War shaped the international system. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades.Samuel F. Wells...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Woodrow Wilson Center Press Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I: THE WAR
- 1. STALIN ENDORSES WAR IN ASIA
- 2. KIM IL-SUNG PLANS AN ATTACK
- 3. TRUMAN CONSOLIDATES US COMMITMENTS
- 4. JOSEPH MCCARTHY SELLS THE POLITICS OF FEAR
- 5. PAUL NITZE SOUNDS THE TOCSIN
- 6. NORTH KOREA DRIVES SOUTH
- 7. TRUMAN REVERSES POLICY
- 8. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR GAMBLES AND WINS
- 9. MAO ZEDONG INTERVENES MASSIVELY
- 10. PENG DEHUAI AND MATTHEW RIDGWAY FIGHT TO A STALEMATE
- PART II: THE TRANSFORMATION
- 11. GEORGE C. MARSHALL AND ROBERT LOVETT GUIDE A US BUILDUP
- 12. DEAN ACHESON LEADS THE DEFENSE OF EUROPE
- 13. ANDREI TUPOLEV CREATES A STRATEGIC BOMBER FORCE
- 14. CURTIS LEMAY BUILDS THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND
- 15. IGOR KURCHATOV DEVELOPS SOVIET NUCLEAR WEAPONS
- 16. WALTER BEDELL SMITH REFORMS AND EXPANDS THE CIA
- 17. KOREA TRANSFORMS THE COLD WAR
- Chronology
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index