Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944 1949 - Hardcover

Eisenberg, Carolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521392128 ISBN 13: 9780521392129

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Eisenberg argues that the United States made the decision to divide Germany, and that this was the key development in the emergence of the Cold War.

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In this fresh and challenging study of the origins of the Cold War, Professor Eisenberg traces the American role in dividing postwar Germany. Drawing on many original documentary sources, she examines the Allied meeting on the Elbe, follows the Great Powers through their confrontation in Berlin, and ends with the creation of the West German state in the fall of 1949. Unlike many works in the field, this book argues that the partition of Germany was fundamentally an American decision. U.S. policy makers chose partition, mobilized reluctant West Europeans behind that approach, and, by excluding the Soviets from West Germany, contributed to the isolation of East Germany and the emergence of the post-World War II U.S.-Soviet rivalry. The volume casts new light on the Berlin blockade, demonstrating that the United States rejected United Nations mediation and relied on its nuclear monopoly as the means of protecting its German agenda.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521392128
• ISBN 13: 9780521392129
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 540
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italien