The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
Editor: Boyer, Paul S.
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-19-975925-5
Category: History - United States -- History
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Offers a wide range of perspectives to provide an encompassing context of the United States' military and diplomatic legacies
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Preface
- Common Abbreviations Used in this Work
- A
- ABM Treaty
- Acheson, Dean
- Adams, John (1735–1826),
- Adams, John Quincy (1767–1848),
- Adams–Onís Treaty
- Addams, Jane (1860–1935),
- Afghanistan War (SINCE 2001)
- Africa
- Agency for International Development
- Agent Orange
- Air Force, U.S.
- Overview
- Origins of the Air Force
- Air Force Independence and the Cold War
- Air Force Academy
- Alabama Claims Controversy
- Alamo, Battle of the
- Alaska, Purchase of
- Albright, Madeleine (1937– ),
- Algeciras Conference
- Alliance for Progress
- Al-Qaeda
- America First Committee
- American Friends Service Committee
- American Legion
- Analogy in U.S. Diplomacy
- Antebellum Era, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the
- Anti-Americanism
- Anti-Communism
- Antietam, Battle of
- Anti-imperialism
- Antinuclear Protest Movements
- Antiwar Movements
- Apartheid, U.S. Policy toward
- Arab–Israeli Conflict, U.S. Policy toward
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Arms Control
- Arms Race
- Army, U.S.
- Overview
- Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
- 1783–1865
- 1866–1899
- 1900–1941
- Since 1941
- Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.
- Army–McCarthy Hearings
- Arnold, Benedict (1741–1801),
- Arthur, Chester A. (1829–1886),
- Articles of Confederation
- Asia
- Atlantic Charter
- Atomic Bomb
- Atomic Energy Commission
- Australia
- B
- Bacon’s Rebellion
- Baker, James (1930– ),
- Balch, Emily Greene (1867–1961),
- Barbary Wars
- Baruch Plan
- Bases, U.S. Military, Domestic and Foreign
- Bay of Pigs
- Berlin Blockade and Airlift
- Black Hawk (c. 1767–1838),
- Blaine, James G. (1830–1893),
- Bombing, Strategy and Ethics of
- Bombing Survey, U.S. Strategic
- Bonus Army
- Boston Massacre
- Boston Tea Party
- Brant, Joseph (1742–1807),
- Bretton Woods Conference
- Brookings Institution and RAND Corporation
- Brownsville Incident
- Bryan, William Jennings (1860–1925),
- Buchanan, James (1791–1868),
- Bulge, Battle of the
- Bull Run, Battle of
- Bunche, Ralph J. (1904–1971),
- Bundy, McGeorge (1919–1996),
- Bunker Hill, Battle of
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Burr, Aaron (1756–1836),
- Burr Conspiracy
- Bush, George H. W. (1924– ),
- Bush, George W. (1946– ),
- Bush, Vannevar
- Bush Doctrine
- Byrnes, James F.
- C
- Camp David Accords
- Caribbean, The
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Caroline Episode
- Carter Doctrine
- Carter, Jimmy
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Chaplaincy in the U.S. Military
- Cheney, Richard B. (1941– ),
- Cherokee Cases
- Chile, U.S. Destabilization Policy toward (1973)
- China, Opening to
- China, People’s Republic of
- Christopher, Warren (1925–2011),
- Civil Defense
- Civil Liberties, Suppression of
- Civil War (1861–1865)
- Causes
- Military and Diplomatic Course
- Domestic Course
- Postwar Impact
- Changing Interpretations
- Clark, George Rogers (1752–1818),
- Clay, Henry (1777–1852), U.S. congressman, senator, secretary of state, presidential candidate, and Whig Party leader.
- Clayton–Bulwer Treaty
- Cleveland, Grover (1837–1908), twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States.
- Clifford, Clark (1906–1998), lawyer, presidential adviser,
- Clinton Doctrine
- Clinton, Bill (1946– ),
- Coast Guard, U.S.
- Cold War (1945–1991)
- Causes
- External Course
- Domestic Course
- Changing Interpretations
- Collective Security
- Colonial Era, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the
- Commander in Chief, President as
- Common Sense
- Communism
- Conant, James B. (1893–1978), president of Harvard University, science administrator, and diplomat.
- Confederate States of America
- Congress and Foreign Policy and Military Affairs
- Conscientious Objection
- Conscription
- Constitution, Basis for Diplomacy and War in the
- Constitutional Convention of 1787
- Containment
- Coolidge, Calvin (1872–1933), thirtieth president of the United States, from 1923 to 1929.
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Counterinsurgency
- Covert Operations
- Crazy Horse
- Creek War
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cultural Turn in History of U.S. Foreign Relations
- Custer, George Armstrong
- D
- Davis, Jefferson (1808–1889),
- Dawes Plan
- Dawes Severalty Act
- D-Day Landing
- Declaration of Independence
- Defense Budgets
- Defense Contractors, Private
- Defense, U.S. Department of
- Defense Industry
- Defense, U.S. Secretaries of
- Democracy Promotion
- Democratic Party
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Détente
- Diplomacy, Theories of
- Dollar Diplomacy
- Domestic Politics, Influence of, on U.S. Foreign Policy
- Dominican Republic, U.S. Interventions in
- Domino Theory
- Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
- Draft, The
- Drugs, War on
- Dulles, John Foster
- E
- Early Republic, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890–1969),
- Embargo Acts
- Espionage
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- Europe
- European Recovery Program
- Expansionism
- F
- Farragut, David (1801–1870),
- Flexible Response
- Ford Foundation
- Ford, Gerald R. (1913–2006),
- Foreign Aid
- Foreign Policy
- Foreign-Policy Analysis
- Foreign Relations
- Foreign Trade, U.S.
- Foundations, Philanthropic, and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Fourteen Points
- Franklin, Benjamin
- French and Indian War
- Fulbright, William (1905–1995), U.S. senator from Arkansas from 1945 to 1974.
- G
- Gadsden Purchase
- Garvey, Marcus (1887–1940), Jamaican publisher, businessman, and black-nationalist leader.
- Gates Foundation
- Gates, Robert
- Gender and American Foreign Policy
- Gender, Sexuality, and War
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt)
- Geneva Conventions
- Geronimo (1823?–1909).
- Gettysburg, Battle of
- Gettysburg Address
- Ghent, Treaty of
- GI Bill
- Gilded Age and Progressive Era, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the
- Global Economy, America and the
- Good Neighbor Policy
- Grand Army of the Republic
- Grand Strategy
- Grant, Ulysses S. (1822–1885), Civil War general and eighteenth president of the United States.
- Greene, Nathanael
- Grenada, Invasion of
- Group of Seven Conferences
- Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of
- GuantÁnamo Bay
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Gulf War
- H
- Hadley, Stephen
- Haig, Alexander (1924–2010), U.S. Army officer, secretary of state, business executive.
- Haiti, U.S. Relations with
- Hamilton, Alexander
- Hard Power
- Harrison, Benjamin
- Hawai‘ian Annexation
- Hawley–Smoot Tariff
- Hay, John
- Helsinki Accords
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Bombing of
- Historiography
- American Diplomatic History
- American Military History
- Holbrooke, Richard
- Homosexuality, Policy toward, in the U.S. Military
- Hoover, Herbert
- Hopkins, Harry
- House, Edward “Colonel”
- House of Representatives
- Houston, Sam
- Hull, Cordell
- Human Rights, International
- Hussein, Saddam
- Hydrogen Bomb
- I
- Ideals, Military
- Ideology as a Factor in U.S. Foreign Relations
- Imperial Wars
- India
- India–Pakistan Conflict, U.S. Policy toward
- Indonesia, U.S. Relations with
- Institute of Pacific Relations
- Insular Cases
- Intelligence, Military and Political
- Intelligence Oversight Act
- Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
- International Criminal Court
- Internationalism
- International Law
- International Monetary Fund
- International Relations Theory and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Internment of Enemy Aliens and Combatants
- Internment of Japanese Americans
- Interventionism
- Interwar Period, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the
- Iran
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Iranian Hostage Crisis
- Iran–Iraq War, U.S. Policy toward
- Iraq Wars
- Iroquois Confederacy
- Isolationism
- Israel, U.S. Relations with
- Iwo Jima, Battle of
- J
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jackson, Henry “Scoop”
- Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall”
- Japan
- Japanese Americans, Incarceration of
- Japanese Internment
- Jay, John
- Jay’s Treaty
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Jingoism
- Johnson, Andrew
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Jones, John Paul
- Jones Jr., James
- Judiciary and Foreign Policy
- Justice, Military
- Articles of War
- Uniform Code of Military Justice (Since 1950)
- Military Crimes
- Military Police
- Military Courts
- Military Punishment
- Military Prisons
- Just War Theory
- K
- Kellogg, Frank B. (1856–1937),
- Kellogg–Briand Pact
- Kennan, George F.
- Kennedy, John F.
- King, Ernest J.
- King Philip’s War
- Kirkpatrick, Jeane
- Kissinger, Henry
- Korean War
- L
- Laird, Melvin (b. 1922),
- Lansing, Robert
- Law, International
- League of Nations
- Leahy, William D. (1875–1959),
- Lebanon, U.S. Intervention in (1982–1983)
- Lee, Robert E.
- LeMay, Curtis E.
- Leyte Gulf, Battle of
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the
- Lobbies, Influence of, on U.S. Foreign Policy
- London Economic Conference
- Long Telegram
- Louisiana Purchase
- M
- MacArthur, Douglas
- Madison, James
- Mahan, Alfred Thayer
- Maine, USS, Sinking of
- Manhattan Project
- Manifest Destiny
- Marine Corps, U.S.
- Overview
- 1775–1865
- 1865–1914
- 1914–1945
- Since 1945
- Marshall, George C.
- Marshall Plan
- Marxism-Leninism
- Massive Retaliation
- Mayaguez Incident
- McChrystal, Stanley
- McClellan, George
- McKinley, William
- McNamara, Robert S.
- Media, Role of, in U.S. Foreign Policy
- War and the Military in News Media
- War and the Military in Photography
- Meigs, Montgomery
- Mexican War
- Mexico
- Middle East, The
- Midway, Battle of
- Military–Industrial Complex
- Military Service Academies
- Military Strategy
- Military, The
- Missiles
- Missionary Movements
- Mitchell, Billy (1879–1936),
- Modernization Theory
- Monroe, James (1758–1831),
- Monroe Doctrine
- Moore, John Bassett (1860–1947),
- Morgenthau Plan
- Mormon War
- Movies, Military Depiction in
- Munich
- Mutually Assured Destruction (Mad)
- My Lai Massacre
- N
- National Guard and Army Reserve
- National Missile Defense
- National Security
- National Security Act of 1947
- National Security Agency
- National Security Council
- National Security Council Document 68
- National Security Memoranda
- Native Americans in the Military
- Native American Wars
- Nato
- Naval Academy
- Navigation Acts
- Navy, U.S.
- Overview
- 1775–1865
- 1866–1898
- 1899–1945
- Since 1945
- Neoconservatism
- Neutrality
- Neutrality Acts
- New Look Policy, Eisenhower’s
- New Orleans, Battle of
- Niebuhr, Reinhold
- Nimitz, Chester
- Nitze, Paul H.
- Nixon Doctrine
- Nixon, Richard M.
- Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968)
- Normandy Invasion
- North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Northern Ireland Peace Process, U.S. Diplomacy in the
- Nuclear Arms Control Treaties
- Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Comprehensive
- Nuclear Strategy
- Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
- Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Limited
- Nuclear Weapons and Strategy
- The Cold War Nuclear Arms Race
- Nuclear Arms Control in the Cold War
- Nuclear Counter-proliferation after the Cold War
- Missiles and Nuclear Missile Defense
- Nuremberg Trials
- O
- Obama, Barack (1961– ),
- Office of Strategic Services
- Olney, Richard (1835–1917),
- Opechancanough (c. 1545–1646),
- “Open Door” Policy
- Organization of American States
- Osceola (c. 1804–1838),
- Ostend Manifesto
- P
- Pacific Islands
- Pacifism
- Paine, Thomas (1737–1809),
- Pakistan
- Panama, U.S. Military Intervention in
- Panama Canal
- Pan-American Union
- Paris Peace Conference
- Paris, Treaty of
- Partial Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
- Patriot Act, U.S.A.
- Patton, George S., Jr. (1885–1945),
- Peace Corps
- Peace Movements
- Peace Progressives
- Pearl Harbor, Attack on
- Pensions, Civil War
- Pentagon, The
- Pentagon Papers
- Pequot War
- Permanent Court of International Justice
- Perry, Matthew (1794–1858),
- Pershing, John J. (1860–1948),
- Persian Gulf War
- Petraeus, David
- Philippine War
- Photography and War
- Pierce, Franklin (1804–1869),
- Pinckney’s Treaty
- Platt Amendment
- Pocahontas (c. 1595/1596–1617),
- Point Four Program
- Political Warfare
- Polk, James Knox (1795–1849),
- Pontiac (d. 1769),
- Pontiac’s Rebellion
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Potsdam Conference
- Powell, Colin (1937–),
- Powell Doctrine
- Powhatan (d. 1618),
- Preparedness Controversy
- Presidential Decision Making and Foreign Policy
- Presidents, Foreign-Policy Legacies of
- Primacy
- Proclamation of 1763
- Progressive Era, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the
- Propaganda and American Popular Culture
- Public Diplomacy
- Public Opinion, Influence of, on U.S. Diplomacy
- Pueblo Revolt
- Q
- Quasi-War with France
- R
- Rabi, Isidor I. (1898–1988),
- Race and Foreign Relations
- Race and the Military
- RAND Corporation
- Rankin, Jeannette (1880–1973),
- Reagan Doctrine
- Reagan, Ronald (1911–2004),
- Realism
- Reconstruction
- Red Cloud (1822–1909),
- Red Cross, American
- Reed, Walter (1851–1902),
- Religion, Influence of, on U.S. Diplomacy
- Republican Party
- Revere, Paul (1735–1818),
- Revolution and Constitution Era
- Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
- Causes
- Military and Diplomatic Course
- Domestic Course
- Postwar Impact
- Changing Interpretations
- Revolution in Military Affairs, The
- Rice, Condoleezza (1954– ),
- Rickover, Admiral Hyman
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Roosevelt Corollary
- Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884–1962),
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945),
- Roosevelt, Theodore (1858–1919),
- Root, Elihu (1845–1937),
- Rosenberg Case
- Rostow, Walt W. (1916–2003),
- Rotc
- Rumsfeld, Donald (1932– ),
- Rusk, Dean (1909–1994),
- Russia
- S
- SALT and START
- San Francisco Conference
- San Juan Hill, Battle of
- Saratoga, Battle of
- Schwarzkopf, H. Norman
- Scott, Winfield
- Scowcroft, Brent
- Segregation and Integration, Racial, in U.S. Military
- Selective Service
- Seminole Wars
- Senate, Role in U.S. Foreign Policy and Military Affairs
- September 11th Terrorist Attacks
- Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
- Seven Years’ War
- Seward, William
- Shays’s Rebellion
- Sherman, William T.
- Shiloh, Battle of
- Shultz, George Pratt
- Sitting Bull
- Smith, John
- Smoot–Hawley Tariff
- Soft Power, Concept of
- Spanish–American War
- Star Wars Policy
- State, U.S. Department of
- State, U.S. Secretaries of
- Stilwell, Joseph
- Stimson Doctrine
- Stimson, Henry
- Strategic Air Command
- Strategic Arms REDUCTION Treaties (Start I, Start II)
- Strategic Defense Initiative
- Strategy
- Submarines and Submarine Warfare
- Supreme Court, U.S.
- T
- Taft, William Howard
- Taiwan
- Taliban
- Tariffs: Tariffs of 1789, 1824, 1828
- Taylor, Zachary
- Tecumseh
- Teller Amendment
- Territories, Legal and Foreign Policy and Status of
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- Terror, War on
- Test-Ban Treaty
- Tet Offensive
- Think Tanks and U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs
- Tomb of the Unknowns
- Torture, Issue of, in U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs
- Trade and Tariffs and U.S. Diplomacy and War
- Trading with the Enemy Act
- Truman Doctrine
- Truman, Harry S.
- U
- Underwood Tariff
- Uniform Code of Military Justice
- United Nations, U.S. Relationship with the
- United States Foreign Relations
- Africa
- Asia
- Australasia
- Caribbean
- Central and South America
- China
- Europe
- India
- Iran
- Middle East
- Russia
- United States Information Agency
- V
- Valley Forge
- Van Buren, Martin (1782–1862),
- Vance, Cyrus
- Versailles, Treaty of
- Veterans
- Overview
- The Veterans Administration
- Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of
- Vicksburg, Siege of
- Vietnamization
- Vietnam Syndrome
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Vietnam War
- Voice of America
- W
- Walker, William
- War, American Way of
- War and Peace in American Popular Culture
- War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg and Tokyo
- War Department
- Warfare, Psychological
- War Industries Board
- War of 1812
- War on Terror
- War Powers Act
- War Propaganda and Popular Culture, American
- Washington, George
- Washington Naval Arms Conference
- Washington’s Farewell Address
- Weaponry, Nonnuclear
- Webster–Ashburton Treaty
- Weinberger, Caspar
- West Point
- Whiskey Rebellion
- White Fleet
- Williams School
- Wilson, Woodrow
- Wisconsin School of American Diplomatic History
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
- World Bank
- World Trade Organization (Wto)
- World War I (1914–1918)
- Overview
- Causes
- Causes of U.S. Entry
- Military and Diplomatic Course
- Domestic Course
- Postwar Impact
- Changing Interpretations
- World War II
- Causes
- Military and Diplomatic Course
- Domestic Course
- Postwar Impact
- Changing Interpretations
- X
- XYZ Affair
- Y
- Yalta Conference
- Yamasee War
- Yorktown, Battle of
- Yugoslav Wars
- Topical Outline of Entries
- Directory of Contributors