Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a united action coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would…
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Weitere Autoren: Jones, Matthew
- ISBN: 978-1-350-02116-7
- EAN: 9781350021167
- Produktnummer: 31759472
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'320 KB
- Abbildungen: 10 bw illus
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Kevin Ruane is Professor of Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
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