Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts. Leading diplomatic historians address familiar subjects from new angles. They offer new evidence about the risks run and the costs incurred in the prosecution of the Cold War, from Korea to the Caribbean. And they provide up-to-date accounting of mid-twentieth century American diplomacy's global purposes and consequences.

1 Provides new post-Cold War perspectives in particular on the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crises and the relationship between world war and cold war2 First publication of original essays based on newly available primary and archival materials3 Contributors are internationally-recognized authorities on American wartime and Cold War diplomacy4 Broader interpretative range than competing works on this topic

Preface List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Foreword Introduction: Between Past and Prologue; D.Carter & R.Clifton PART I: WORLD WAR AND COLD WAR: MUSHROOMING CONFLICTS The Second World War: Not (Just) the Origins of the Cold War; W.F.Kimball Unconditional Surrender: The Dawn of the Atomic Age; L.C.Gardner PART II: PRIVATES ON PARADE: THE COLD WAR OF WORDS Mobilizing Culture: The State-Private Network and the CIA in the Early Cold War; W.S.Lucas Challenge and Response: Arnold Toynbee and the United States During the Cold War; R.Crockatt PART III: BEYOND THE POLICE ACTION: THE KOREAN WAR Waging Limited Conflict: The Impact of the Korean War on Anglo-American Relations, 1950-1953; P.Lowe War Crimes and Historical Memory: The United Nations Occupation of North Korea in 1950; B.Cumings PART IV: HEMISPHERES OF INFLUENCE: THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA The United States, Argentina, and the End of the First Perón Government, 1953-1955; M.Rapoport & C.Spiguel The Real Gap in the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Post Cold War Historiography and the Continuing Omission of Cuba; N.Miller Appendix Index