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America as a World Leader

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Contents

America as World Leader: External Power
American Foreign Relations
- Realpolitik or Human Rights
Relations with the Soviet Union [also see above "Cold War]
Relations with China
The Korean War
The Vietnam War

America as a World Leader: External Power

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American Foreign Relations

WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Democracy and Foreign Policy [At Mt. Holyoke]
WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Human Rights [At Mt. Holyoke]
WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Intelligence Community [At Internet Archive, from Mt. Holyoke]
WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Nuclear Weapons [At Mt. Holyoke]
WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Reagan Administration [At Mt. Holyoke]
WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Clinton Administration [At Mt. Holyoke]
John F. Kennedy: The Space Challenge, Sept 13, 1962 [At this Site]
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: The New Isolationism, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1952, [At The Atlantic, subscription required, subscription required]
Walter Lippman: Mr Kennan and Reappraisal in Europe, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1958, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
Benjamin R. Barber: Jihad Vs. McWorld, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1992 [At The Atlantic, subscription required, subscription required]
Realpolitik or Human Rights
- Senator Fulbright: Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis, September 15, 1965 [At this Site]
  A wide-ranging critique of US foreign policy.
- Foreign Aid and Human Rights, 1976 [At USInfo]
  In 1976, Congress overrode a presidential veto to enact this human rights policy into the International Security and Arms Export Control Act.
- Jimmy Carter: Human Rights and Foreign Policy, 1977 [At USInfo]
  A commencement speech given at Notre Dame University in June 1977.
- Sanctions Against South Africa, 1986 [At USInfo]
- Democracy and Foreign Policy, 1990 [At USInfo]
  Secretary of State James Baker addresss the issue in a speech to the World Affairs Council in March 1990,

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Relations with the Soviet Union [also see under Cold War]

Soviet Reaction to the Baghdad Pact, 1955 [At this Site]

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Relations with China

American Views on the Situation In China, 1947 [At this Site]
Statement by General Marshall, January 7, 1947
Dean Acheson: United States Position on China, August 1949 [At this Site]
An acute critique of Nationalist/Koumintang failures.
John K. Fairbank: China: Time for a Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1957 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
Evaluation of US policy options toward newly Communist mainland China.
James C. Thomson Jr.: Dragon Under Glass: Time for a New China Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1967 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
Argued that the time had come for the United States to reconcile itself with Communist China.
Nixon in China

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The Korean War

Andrei A. Gromyko: On American Intervention In Korea, 1950 [At this Site]
Report of The United Nations Commission on Korea, 1950 [At this Site]

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The Vietnam War

WEB Vietnam War Documents and Links
WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Vietnam [At Mt. Holyoke]
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1968): Program for Communist of Indochina, 1930, excerpts [At this Site]
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945 [At this Site]
The Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference: On Restoring Peace in Indochina, July 21, 1954 [At this Site]
The Manifesto of The Laodong Party, February1951
Two Letters to Ngo Dinh Diem [At Wiretap]
Eisenhower, October 23, 1954 (Department of State Bulletin, November 15, 1954): and Kennedy, December 14, 1961 (Department of State Bulletin, January 1, 1962)
President Eisenhower: Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem, October 23, 1954 [At this Site]
Beginning US "humanitarian" aid.
Viet Cong Program, 1962 [At this Site]
Charles de Gaulle: France's Attitude Toward US Policy in Vietnam, 1964 [At this Site]
Tonkin Gulf Incident, 1964 [At Yale]
The Tonkin Bay Resolution, 1964 [At this Site]
US State Department: North Vietnamese Aggression, 1965 [At this Site]
State Department: White Paper on Vietnam Feb. 27, 1965 [At Wiretap]
U.S. State Department: Aggression from the North, February 27, 1965 [At this Site]
President Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh: Letter Exchange, 1967 [At this Site]
John Kerry, for Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Statement to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, 1971 [At this Site]
War Powers Resolution Nov. 7, 1973 [At USInfo]

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NOTES: Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the New Additions page.. The date of inception was 9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.