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Access to Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and State Department reports covering political, industrial, and military affairs of Cold War era Asia, Europe, the Soviet Union, Latin America, and Africa.
Additional Information:
During World War II and the first decade and a half of the Cold War, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the State Department assigned leading scholars to write special, classified reports about Asia, Europe, the Soviet Union, Latin America, and Africa. These reports helped to shape U.S. foreign policy decisions. Topics covered include: the occupation of Japan by the U.S. following World War II; the Nationalist-Communist struggle for China and Mao's consolidation of power in the 1950s; independence for India; the Korean War; and the outbreak of war in Indochina, the German war effort, occupation and division of Germany, reconstruction of Europe under the Marshall Plan, de Gaulle and the Fifth Republic, formation of the Common Market, and Soviet control of Eastern Europe. Major developments covered include Palestine, African nationalism as well as economic stagnation and famine, Communist movements in South America and U.S. intervention in Central America.
Coverage: 1941-1961
Vendor: ProQuest
Producer: Varies
Interlibrary Loan Type: Not Permitted
Simultaneous User Limit: Unlimited simultaneous users