This volume brings together more than 50 documents which examine foreign policy not only in terms of leaders and states, but also through social movements, cultures, ideas, and images, to provide comprehensive understanding of how Americans have interacted with the wider world since 1898. Draws together over 50 primary documents to give readers a first-hand account of the people and events that shaped the foreign policy of the United StatesIncorporates documents relating not only to leaders and states, but also to social movements, cultures, ideas, and imagesHighlights the diverse range of contributors to debates about American foreign policy, from presidents to protesters, students to singersIncludes a comprehensive introduction to the subject and headnotes for each document written by the editor, as well as a bibliography for further study
Jeremi Suri is the E. Gordon Fox Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is the author of Henry Kissinger and the American Century (2007), The Global Revolutions of 1968 (2006), and Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (2003).
List of Illustrations ixSeries Editors’ Preface xAcknowledgments xiiSource Acknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Chapter 1: War, Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism 71 Secretary of State, John Hay, Open Door Notes, 1899–1900 72 President William McKinley, Account of his Decision to Occupy the Philippines, 1898 113 The Platt Amendment, 1901 134 Jane Addams, Critique of American Militarism, 1902 155 President Theodore Roosevelt, ‘‘Corollary’’ to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 19Chapter 2: The Great War and Its Aftermath 241 George M. Cohan, ‘‘Over There,’’ 1917 242 President Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Address, 1918 263 Senator Robert LaFollette, Opposition to President Wilson’s War Message, 1917 324 W. E. B. Dubois, Comments on the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles, and the Politics of Race, 1918 365 Charles Lindbergh, Account of the First Solo Nonstop Airplane Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean, 1927 406 The Kellogg–Briand Pact, 1928 45Chapter 3: The Great Depression, Fascist Fears, and Social Change in America 511 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933 512 Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Meeting with Adolf Hitler, 1933 563 Father Charles Coughlin, Radio attack on ‘‘Internationalism,’’ 1931 624 Charles Lindbergh, Speech to an America First Committee Meeting, 1941 665 The Atlantic Charter, 1941 69Chapter 4: The Second World War 721 Lawrence T. Kagawa, the Internment of Japanese-Americans, 1942 722 President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin at the Tehran Conference, 1943 743 Dwight Eisenhower, the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps, 1945 784 President Harry Truman, Diary Entries on the Potsdam Conference and his Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan, 1945 805 The Atomic Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki, 1945 83Chapter 5: The Early Cold War 851 George F. Kennan, ‘‘Long Telegram’’ on the Soviet Union, 1946 852 The Truman Doctrine, 1947 903 Assistant Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, the ‘‘Loss’’ of China, 1950 934 Senator Joseph McCarthy, Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950 965 NSC 68, 1950 986 President Dwight Eisenhower, the ‘‘Falling Domino’’ Theory in Indochina, 1954 103Chapter 6: Rebellions Against the Cold War 1061 Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘‘The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness,’’ 1960 1062 ‘‘Spy vs. Spy,’’ 1961 1113 SANE, Public Petition, 1961 1124 Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement, 1962 1145 Women Strike for Peace, ‘‘What Every Woman Knows,’’ 1962 1226 ‘‘Dr. Strangelove,’’ 1964 1257 President Lyndon Johnson, ‘‘Peace Without Conquest,’’ 1965 1308 Phil Ochs, ‘‘I ain’t marchin’ anymore,’’ 1965 1369 Christian Appy, Oral Histories from the Vietnam War 13710 My Lai Massacre, 1968 145Chapter 7: De´tente, Human Rights, and the Continuation of the Cold War 1471 President Richard Nixon, ‘‘Opening’’ to China, 1972 1472 Agreement on Basic Principles between the United States and the Soviet Union, 1972 1563 American Complicity in Chilean Repression, 1973 1594 The Helsinki Final Act, 1975 1635 President Jimmy Carter, Address at the University of Notre Dame, 1977 1696 President Ronald Reagan, ‘‘Evil Empire’’ Speech, 1983 174Chapter 8: The End of the Cold War 1791 President Ronald Reagan, Speech and Questionand-Answer Session at Moscow State University, 1988 1792 The New York Times, Mikhail Gorbachev’s Heroic Reception in the United States, 1988 1893 The New York Times, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 1914 President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev, the End of the Cold War, 1989 196Chapter 9: After the Cold War 2011 President George H. W. Bush, the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, 1990 2012 Deputy Secretary of Defense, John Deutch, Genocide in Rwanda, 1994 2043 President Bill Clinton, the Kosovo Crisis, 1999 206Chapter 10: The War on Terror 2121 The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 2122 The New York Times, the Public Horror of September 11, 2001 2223 President George W. Bush, the Bush Doctrine, 2002 2254 George Packer, the Iraq War, 2005 2285 Torture at Abu Ghraib Prison, 2004 233Select Bibliography 235Index 239