The Vision of Anglo-America: The US-UK Alliance and the Emerging Cold War, 1943-1946
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Paperback ed., 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521892841, ISBN10: 0521892848
Paperback, 244 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This innovative study demonstrates with great clarity the importance of the decline of British power in the creation of the Cold War. The author subjects to detailed analysis the concerted attempts made by the British wartime coalition to forge a perpetual merger with the USA in international affairs to arrest this global decline. He reveals the origins of this policy, the great efforts made towards its realisation, and the ultimate impossibility of fulfilling all of its aims. Dr Ryan uses the Polish and Greek crises of the mid–I940s as case histories to demonstrate his thesis that both the Churchill and Attlee governments recognised the need for the American connection and to provide examples of how they set about obtaining it. Thus, the book casts light on the beginnings of British policy toward the United States that continues today. Reissued in paperback by Cambridge University Press in 2004, Ryan is also the author of The Fall of Che Guavara.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Strengthening the Ties
The Effort and the Problems
1. The need
2. Problems with American public opinion
3. The mixing process
4. Economic issues
Part II. Foreign Crises That Demonstrate Great Britain's Problems
The Polish Crisis
5. Background and build-up
6. Involvement of Great Britain and the United States
7. Yalta and after
8. Truman
the new factor
9. The gathering for the San Francisco conference
10. Between San Francisco and Potsdam
11. Concluding thoughts on the Polish crisis
Part III. Foreign Crises That Demonstrate Great Britain's Problems
The Greek Crisis
12. Background of the crisis
13. 1944, the critical year
14. The role of the press
15. The crisis peaks
16. America dives in
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.