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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822132003321

Autore

Jones Howard <1940-2022.>

Titolo

"A new kind of war" : America's global strategy and the Truman Doctrine in Greece / / Howard Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997, c1989

ISBN

0-19-771096-4

0-19-988057-3

0-19-802146-1

1-280-52948-2

0-19-535429-X

1-4294-0129-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (705 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

327.730495

Soggetti

World politics - 1945-1955

United States Foreign relations 1945-1953

United States Foreign relations Greece

Greece Foreign relations United States

Greece History Civil War, 1944-1949

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Appendix I. Message of the President of the United States, March 12, 1947Appendix II. Public Law 75, May 22, 1947; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work explores the Truman administration's involvement in the civil war in Greece in the aftermath of World War II. America's fear of Soviet world domination resulted in the establishment of an American military presence on Greek soil and regular arms shipments as part of a containment policy.