Lecture Outlines
Shotgun Marriage
A. Conflicting Objectives
1. Supreme Self-Confidence
2. Wartime
Conferences
D. Stalin's Demands
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Words and Deeds
A. Roosevelt's Dance
B. Promises, Promises
C. 'Special Relationship' with Britain
D. Damage Control
E. Friends at Last?
F. Overlord
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Dawn of a New Day
A. The Architecture
1. Teheran (Cairo)
2. IBRD/World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
3. IMF (International Monetary Fund)
4. UN (United Nations)
B. Yalta
1. FDR's
health
2. Alger
Hiss
3. Secret
Protocols
C. Poland
1. Lublin/London governments
2. Warsaw Uprising
D. Germany
E. Roosevelt's Death
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Triumph and Tragedy
B. Potsdam
D. Manhattan Project
1. Compellence
2. Deterrence
F. Potsdam Declaration
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The Iceman Cometh
A. The American Century?
B. Bipolarity
1. Geopolitics
2. Political
Economy
C. Long Peace Conference
1. London
2. Moscow
3. Paris
H. Security Dilemma
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Strategic Monstrosity
A. Beware of Greeks
B. Churchill-Stalin "Percentage Agreement"
C. Rotten Apples
D. Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean
F. "A Policy of Firm Containment"
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Preponderance of Power
A. The World According to Dean Acheson
C. Czech Coup
1. Jan Masaryk
2. Lucius
Clay
1. Currency Reform
2. Berlin
Blockade
3. Strategic
Air Command
E. National Security Act
1. Department of Defense (DoD)
2. Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA}
3. National
Security Council (NSC)
F. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
G. The Great Fear
1. Soviet Atomic Bomb
3. Superbomb (B-52
bomber)
2. Joseph
McCarthy
H. NSC-68
I. Korean War
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Asian Perimeter(s)
A. Vinegar and Peanuts Do Not Mix
1. Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)
2. General Joseph Stilwell
B. Mao Zedong (Mao T'se-tung)
C. Patrick Hurley and the China Hands
D. Missions Impossible
1. Marshall
2. (Albert
Wedemeyer)
E. Who Lost China?
1. China White Paper
2. Henry Luce
3. China
Lobby
F. The Wrong War?
1. Limited War
2.
"Unleashing" Chiang
3. Atomic
Threat
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Waging Peace
A. Death of Stalin
B. The Last American Hero
C. More Bang for the Buck
D. Liberation/Roll Back
E. The Political Divide
1. Internationalists
2. Unilateralists
3. Isolationists
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Between War and Peace
B. The New Look
1. Threat Assessment
2. The Oxymoronism of Deterrence
3. Collective Security
4. Trade and Aid
5. Negotiations
C. Coherence
D. NSC 162/2
E. Containment Redux
F. Shadow Warfare
G. McCarthyism
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To Move a Nation
B. "How Could I Be So Stupid?"
1. The Torch is Passed
2. The Best and the Brightest
a. Dean Rusk
b. McGeorge Bundy
c. Robert McNamara
d. Maxwell Taylor
C. Misperception
D. The Politics (and Strategy) of Personality
1. The Kennedy Imprisonment
2. Psychology of a Nation
E. Berlin Wall
1. 1958 Crisis
2. Vienna Conference
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Profile in Courage
A. Blinksmanship
B. Essence of Decision
1. Groupthink
2.
Multiple Advocacy
2. Executive
Committee (Excom)
C. Options
1. Hawks
2. Doves
3. Owls
D. Quarantine
E. Trollope Ploy
F. Finest Hour
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No Exit
A. The Making of a Quagmire
1. World War II Shenanigans
a. Ho, Giap,
and the OSS
b. FDR's Trusteeship Proposal
2. French Reconquest and the Truman Doctrine
B. First Indochina War
C. Fear of Falling Dominoes
1. Navarre Plan
2. Dienbienphu
3. United Action
4. Congressional Complicity
D. Geneva Conference
E. Sink or Swim with Ngo Dinh Diem
F. Bear Any Burden?
1. Limited Partnership
2. Mutual Distrust
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Triple-Canopied Tragedy
A. The Johnson Irony
B. Missed Opportunity?
C. McNamara's War
1. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
2. Rolling
Thunder
D. Battle of Memoranda
E. The Stalemate Machine
1. Tet
2. Bombing Pause
G. Round Tables and Square Pegs
1. Nguyen Cao Ky
2. Nguyen
Van Thieu
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Indecent Interval
A. New Hampshire, Chicago, and Miami
1. Nixinger
2. From Consensus to Polarization
3. Secret Plan
B. Vietnamization
C. Force and Diplomacy
1. Kissinger
2. Madman in the White House
3. Cambodia
4. Linebacker
1. Preliminary Accord
2. The Tail Wags the Dog
F. Peace with Honor?
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Back to the Future
1. Realism
2. "Long Peace"
B. End of the American Century
1. Equilibrium
2. Legitimacy
3. Linkage
4. Credibility
D. Detente
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Kissinger's Capers
A. 'The Greatest Person in the World"
1. Anwar Sadat
2. Golda Meier
C. Chilly Chile
E. Watergate
F. Cyprus
A. Greece
B. Turkey
G. Jackson-Vanik Amendment (1974)
H. Kissinger Unplugged
A. Vietnam
B. Mayaguez
C. Angola
D. Lebanon/Syria
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Born Again Wilsonianism
B. Naivete and Ineptness
C. Accomplishments
1. Human Rights
4. A World of Complexity
D. Eraticism
1. Afganistan
E. Vance v. Brzezinski
D. Micromanagement
E. Strategic Incoherence
1. De-Linkage
2. Evil or Benign
3. SALT II
F. Georgia v. Washington
G. The Not-So-Great Communicator
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