| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Summary |
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a "united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American "special relationship". In this important study, Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Fallen Idol -- Anthony Eden and the Verdict of History -- PART I: THE ROAD TO 1954 -- 2. Britain, the United States, and the Asian Cold War, 1945-1951 -- 3. Containing China: The Cold War Defence of South-East Asia, 1951-1953 -- 4. Backing France: Britain and the Vietnam War, 1951-1953 -- PART II: THE CRISIS BREAKS -- 5. Korea Wanes, Vietnam Waxes, 1953 -- 6. Countdown to Crisis, January-March 1954 -- 7. From United Action to Disunited Inaction: April 1954 -- PART III: THE CRISIS RESOLVED -- 8. The Fall of Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Conference, May 1954 -- 9. Special no More ... : The Breakdown of the Anglo-American Relationship in Asia, May-June 1954 -- 10. Eden and the Settlement of the First Vietnam War, July 1954. -- PART IV: REFLECTIONS -- 11. Saving the Peace, 1954-1956. -- 12. The Shadow of Suez. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977.
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Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrgFGfGJmYVB6YTJ4BHG3 |
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Indochinese War, 1946-1954.
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1964.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961.
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HISTORY -- Civilization. |
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HISTORY -- Essays. |
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HISTORY -- Reference. |
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HISTORY -- Social History. |
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Diplomatic relations |
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
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Indochinese War (1946-1954) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBb7vVPhq4dcqX4K8Dy |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1964 |
| Added Author |
Jones, Matthew.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ruane, Kevin. Anthony Eden, Anglo-American relations and the 1954 Indochina crisis. London : Bloomsbury Academic 2019 9781350021174 (OCoLC)1102599712 |
| ISBN |
9781350021181 (electronic bk.) |
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1350021180 (electronic bk.) |
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9781350021167 (electronic book) |
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1350021164 (electronic book) |
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9781350021204 (online) |
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1350021202 |
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9781350021198 (paperback) |
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1350021199 |
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9781350021174 |
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1350021172 |
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