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Condemned to Repeat It - 9780739117439

Un libro in lingua di Sheldon Anderson edito da Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2007

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Anderson (history, Miami U.) identifies six historical myths that underpinned US containment policy towards the Soviet Union during the Cold War and details the lessons that US policy makers derived from them and, to a certain extent, continue to heed today. These myths, none of which are supported by the historical record according to Anderson, include the idea that a European "long peace" was kept from 1815 to 1914 based on a state system governed by realism, balance of power, and great power diplomacy; that the punitive Versailles Treaty closing World War I and the failure of the League of Nations caused the rise of Hitler; that Neville Chamberlain's attempts to avert war at Munich in 1938 demonstrated the universal dangers of appeasing "totalitarian" dictators; that President Roosevelt gave away Eastern Europe to Josef Stalin, confirming the Munich analogy; that US containment policy promoted a stable bi-polar world similar to the aforementioned "long peace;" and that the ultimate proof of all of the above was Ronald Reagan's military buildup, "hard-line containment," which caused the fall of the Soviet Empire. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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