Excerpt from The American Age
Source: LaFeber, W 1994, The American Age, United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad.
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LaFeber was an American historian specialising in the history of United States (US) foreign policy for more than 40 years. John Foster Dulles was an American diplomat who, in 1950 51, played a leading role in creating the ANZUS Treaty and the Treaty of Peace with Japan, which turned the Japanese surrender of 1945 into a legal end to hostilities.
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Excerpt from the front page of The Advertiser newspaper, 3 September 1951
Source: The Advertiser 1951, ‘ANZUS Security Pact Ceremony’, 3 September.
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This text is from The Advertiser, which was a widely read newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia.
The ANZUS Treaty was signed on 1 September 1951, and the Treaty of Peace with Japan was signed on 8 September 1951 in San Francisco by 48 nations, including Australia and the US.
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Excerpt from ANZUS and the Early Cold War
Source: Kelly, A 2018, ANZUS and the Early Cold War: Strategy and diplomacy between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1945 1956.
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Andrew Kelly is a historian who has written articles on the relationship between Australia, New Zealand and the US during the Cold War period. The Korean War (1950 53) saw the Communist regime of North Korea, backed by the Soviet Union, invade South Korea. The US and its allies backed South Korea and sent military forces to support it. The US State Department is responsible for foreign relations.
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Excerpt from a letter from US President Harry Truman to John Foster Dulles, 10 January 1951
Source: Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, Volume VI, Asia And the Pacific, Part 1, United States Government Printing Office.
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Harry Truman was the US President from 1945 to 1953. The Cold War was a conflict between the US and the Soviet Union and their allies that began during Truman’s presidency. During the Cold War, neither side engaged in a direct war with each other but were politically hostile to each other. Each sought to prevent other countries from coming under the influence of the other side.
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Excerpt from ‘From ANZUS to SEATO’
Source: Brands, H 1987, ‘From ANZUS to SEATO: United States strategic policy towards Australia and New Zealand, 1952 1954’, The International History Review.
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Henry Brands is an American historian. His publications include many works on US foreign policy.
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6 of 6 Excerpt from ‘The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War’
Source: Robb, T & Gill, D 2015, ‘The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: A reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific’, Journal of Cold War Studies.
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Robb is a historian of international affairs, specialising in the diplomatic history of the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Gill is a historian specialising in international relations and economic history. The Journal of Cold War Studies is an academic periodical focused on publishing the research work of historians.
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References
Source 1
LaFeber, W 1994, The American Age, United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, WW Norton &
Company, US, p. 519.
Source 2
The Advertiser 1951, ANZUS Security Pact Ceremony, 3 September, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/45775550?searchTerm=anzus#.
Source 3
Kelly, A 2018, ANZUS Negotiations. In ANZUS and the Early Cold War: Strategy and Diplomacy between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1945–1956, Cambridge, UK, pp. 71–90,
www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5zfv3m.9.
Source 4
Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, volume VI, Asia And the Pacific, Part 1, p. 788–789, https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1951v06p1/pg_789.
Source 5
Brands, H 1987, ‘From ANZUS to SEATO: United States strategic policy towards Australia and New Zealand, 1952–1954’, The International History Review, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 250–270, www.jstor.org/stable/40107239.
Source 6
Robb, TK & Gill, DJ 2015, ‘The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: A reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific’, Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 156–157,
https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article/17/4/109/13555/The-ANZUS-Treaty-during-the-Cold-War-A.
