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1 History 171D The United States and the World Since 1945

2 Prof. Fredrik Logevall Cornell University Wednesday, April 10, 4 pm McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Embers of War The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam Extra Credit Opportunity!

3 History 171D The United States and the World Since 1945

4 1986

5 Themes I. Controversy

6 Pieter Geyl

7 I. Controversy Oliver Stone

8 I. Controversy Oliver Stone

9 I. Controversy There is broad consensus among historians over standards of evidence and logic but much debate within that consensus Oliver Stone

10 Themes II. American Power

11 US has been dominant world power throughout post-1945 period

12 II. American Power US lost some (relative) power in 1960s and 1970s US hostages in Iran, 1979

13 II. American Power... but regained it in closing decades of 20th century Air war against Iraq, 1991

14 II. American Power Is US power now declining?

15 Themes III. Cold War—Debates over how and why it started and ended Yalta Conference, 1945

16 Themes III. Cold War—Debates over how and why it started and ended Fall of Berlin Wall, 1989

17 III. Cold War—Debates over how and why it started and ended Re beginning of CW: conservatives and centrists agree Soviet Union to blame

18 III. Cold War—Debates over how and why it started and ended Re beginning of CW: leftists more inclined to blame US

19 III. Cold War—Debates over how and why it started and ended Re ending of CW: conservatives credit Ronald Reagan

20 III. Cold War—Debates over how and why it started and ended Re ending of CW: conservatives credit Ronald Reagan

21 III. Cold War—Debates over how and why it started and ended Re ending of CW: centrists credit long-term, bipartisan US foreign policy

22 III. Cold War—Debates over how and why it started and ended Re ending of CW: centrists credit long-term, bipartisan US foreign policy

23 III. Cold War—Debates over how and why it started and ended Re ending of CW: leftists say, “Why celebrate?”

24 Themes IV. Foreign Policy Lessons

25 “No more Munichs!” Neville Chamberlain with Adolf Hitler, Sept. 1938

26 IV. Foreign Policy Lessons “No more Vietnams!”

27 Themes V. Interaction between foreign and domestic affairs

28 Foreign policy influences on domestic affairs: Case in point: Vietnam War

29 Foreign policy influences on domestic affairs: Vietnam War polarized US society, sparking simultaneous rebellions from left and right

30 Foreign policy influences on domestic affairs: Vietnam War polarized US society, sparking simultaneous rebellions from left and right Antiwar protest, Oakland, CA, 1965

31 Foreign policy influences on domestic affairs: Vietnam War polarized US society, sparking simultaneous rebellions from left and right Ronald Reagan

32 Foreign policy influences on domestic affairs: Vietnam War polarized US society, sparking simultaneous rebellions from left and right

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35 Domestic influences on foreign policy: “Vietnam syndrome” constrained (for a while) subsequent US interventionism

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