Not to the swift : the old isolationists in the cold war era / Justus D. Doenecke

A study of the reaction of the isolationists to the major crises of the Cold War, starting in 1943 when opposition to the policy of unconditional surrender began to develop, and continuing down to 1954, the beginning of U.S. involvement in Indochina. Among the crises discussed are Yalta, the UN charter, the dropping of the atom bomb, the Nuremberg trials, the Atlantic Pact, and the initial involvement of the United States in Vietnam. Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 An Ideology under Stress: An Introduction to Modem Isolationism 2 The Lost Victory, 1943-1945 3 Fears of Victory, 1945-1946 4 The Truman Doctrine: Point of No Return 5 The Revisionist Counteroffensive: The Battle of the Books 6 Dollars, Ratholes, and Elections: The Challenges of 1948 7 Germany: The Key to Europe 8 The Atlantic Pact: “An Entangling Alliance” 9 The Fall of China 10 Korea and Europe: The Great Debate of 1950-1951 11 “The Fight for America” : McCarthyism and the Election of 1952 12 A Permanent Loss : The Advent of Eisenhower, 1953-1954 Bibliography of Sources and Works Index