Cold War Crucible : : The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World / / Masuda Hajimu.
The end of World War II did not mean the arrival of peace. The major powers faced social upheaval at home, while anticolonial wars erupted around the world. American-Soviet relations grew chilly, but the meaning of the rivalry remained disputable. Cold War Crucible reveals the Korean War as the cata...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) :; 34 halftones |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: What Was the Cold War? -- I. THE REPERCUSSIONS -- II. THE SOCIAL -- III. THE SIMULTANEITY -- Epilogue: The Cold War as Social Politics -- Notes -- Archives Consulted -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Summary: | The end of World War II did not mean the arrival of peace. The major powers faced social upheaval at home, while anticolonial wars erupted around the world. American-Soviet relations grew chilly, but the meaning of the rivalry remained disputable. Cold War Crucible reveals the Korean War as the catalyst for a new postwar order. The conflict led people to believe in the Cold War as a dangerous reality, a belief that would define the fears of two generations. In the international arena, North Korea's aggression was widely interpreted as the beginning of World War III. At the domestic level, the conflict generated a wartime logic that created dividing lines between "us" and "them," precipitating waves of social purges to stifle dissent. The United States allowed McCarthyism to take root; Britain launched anti-labor initiatives; Japan conducted its Red Purge; and China cracked down on counterrevolutionaries. These attempts to restore domestic tranquility were not a product of the Cold War, Masuda Hajimu shows, but driving forces in creating a mindset for it. Alarmed by the idea of enemies from within and faced with the notion of a bipolar conflict that could quickly go from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount. In discovering how policymaking and popular opinion combined to establish and propagate the new postwar reality, Cold War Crucible offers a history that reorients our understanding of what the Cold War really was. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674735941 9783110649772 9783110439687 9783110438635 9783110665901 |
DOI: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674735941 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Masuda Hajimu. |