{"id":4032,"date":"2020-10-15T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/?page_id=4032"},"modified":"2023-10-31T14:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:22:19","slug":"alliance-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/course-syllabus\/alliance-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliance Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Who was the most compelling US diplomat of the Second World War?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CHAPTER 13:\u00a0 “Five Continents and Seven Seas”: World War II and the Rise of American Globalism, 1941-1945<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>“The Japanese attack on Hawaii undermined as perhaps nothing else could have the cherished notion that America was secure from foreign threat.\u00a0 The ensuing war elevated foreign policy to the highest national priority for the first time since the early republic.\u00a0 By virtue of its size, its wealth, its largely untapped economic and military potential, and its distance from major war zones, the United States, along with Britain and the Soviet Union, assumed leadership of what came to be called the United Nations, a loose assemblage of some forty countries.\u00a0 During the war, it built a mammoth military establishment and funded a huge foreign aid program.\u00a0 It became involved in a host of complex and often intricately interconnected diplomatic, economic, political, and military problems across the world, requiring a sprawling foreign policy bureaucracy staffed by thousands of men and women engaged in all sorts of activities in places Americans could not previously have located on a map.”<\/p>\n

\u2013George C. Herring,\u00a0From Colony to Superpower:\u00a0 U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 538.<\/p>\n

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