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Abstract. Japan: A Preview and Overview Dean Acheson was in his element when engaged in European affairs, with the Soviet Union as his target. By his own accounting, the Japanese peace treaty of 1951 was his single triumph in Asia. Washington held all the high cards in Japan; otherwise, creating situations of strength in Asia was a daunting task.
1 de dic. de 2008 · Acheson pushed for, even prior to the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, a massive rearmament of the USA in order to deter the USSR, and, eventually, to win the Cold War. By that time Kennan's influence in the State Department had declined visibly. Acheson was a realist, a pragmatic and skilful diplomat, but his world vision was somewhat ...
Dean Gooderham Acheson (Middletown, 11 aprile 1893 – Sandy Spring, 12 ottobre 1971) è stato un politico statunitense, Segretario di Stato degli Stati Uniti sotto la presidenza Truman dal 1949 al 1953.Fu anche il principale consigliere di politica estera di Truman dal 1945 al 1947, in particolare per quanto riguarda la Guerra Fredda.Acheson contribuì a progettare la Dottrina Truman e il ...
1 de dic. de 2008 · Acheson pushed for, even prior to the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, a massive rearmament of the USA in order to deter the USSR, and, eventually, to win the Cold War. By that time Kennan's influence in the State Department had declined visibly. Acheson was a realist, a pragmatic and skilful diplomat, but his world vision was somewhat ...
1 de ene. de 2007 · This masterful account of the iconic American diplomat traces Acheson's extraordinary State Department years, from World War II planning and the Bretton Woods accords through the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the North Atlantic Pact, and the Korean War. In exhaustive detail, Beisner reconstructs Acheson's pivotal role in fashioning responses to a cascade of Cold War crises and in laying ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize With deft portraits of many world figures, Dean Acheson analyzes the processes of policy making, the necessity for decision, and the role of power and initiative in matters of state. Acheson (1893–1971) was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects. He joined the Department of State in 1941 as Assistant Secretary of ...
Dean Acheson. Born April 11, 1893 Middletown, Connecticut Died October 12, 1971 Sandy Spring, Maryland. American diplomat, lawyer, and author. In his twelve-year career with the U.S. State Department, including four years as secretary of state under President Harry S. Truman (1884–1973; see entry), Dean Acheson became one of the most influential individuals in the entire history of American ...
