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Eisenhower and Adenauer
Alliance Maintenance under Pressure, 1953–1960
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2009
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In the early years of the Atlantic Alliance, no bilateral relationship was more important than that between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. Even so, the West German-American alliance was taxing for both sides during much of the first two decades of the Cold War. Ultimately, despite frequent, significant challenges to the alliance from without and within, the two allies managed to achieve a positive and productive relationship - Eisenhower and Adenauer explains how they did so. In both capitals, the top foreign policy makers were deeply involved in the conduct of what they viewed as a vital bilateral alliance, with both President Dwight Eisenhower and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer taking the lead in his own government. For the Americans, a rearmed FRG tightly bound to the West was the bedrock of any European security policy that could contain the Soviet Union for the long-term. For the West German government, their relationship with the United States was the bedrock of rehabilitation and, indeed, survival as an independent country. In this book, their alliance is closely analyzed to form new knowledge on the West German-American relationship during the Cold War.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4225-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4227-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
278
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1. Introduction: Issues, Events, and Personalities No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter 2. “Confined to the Smallest Number of Powers”: The Peace Offensive after Stalin No access Pages 19 - 56
Chapter 3. “There Is No Other Foreign Policy”: The Road to Berlin No access Pages 57 - 96
Chapter 4. “The Year Things Began to Get Unstuck”: 1955 No access Pages 97 - 150
Chapter 5. “The Key to World Dominance”: Western Unity and the Foreign Policy Initiative, 1956 No access Pages 151 - 196
Chapter 6. Toward Berlin and the Status Quo: 1957–1958 No access Pages 197 - 230
Chapter 7. “The Strongest Weapon Is Unity”: Berlin, 1958–1960 No access Pages 231 - 254
