George Kennan

Examples of George Kennan in the following topics:

• Containment

  • The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by U.S. diplomat George F.
  • Kennan known as the "Long Telegram."
  • As a description of U.S. foreign policy, the word originated in a report Kennan submitted to U.S.
  • According to Kennan, the Soviet Union did not see the possibility for long-term peaceful coexistence with the capitalist world.
  • George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904–March 17, 2005) was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.

• Containment in Foreign Policy

  • The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by U.S. diplomat George F.
  • State Department asked George F.
  • Kennan, then at the U.S.
  • According to Kennan:
  • George Kennan's foreign policy analysis is examined and the pillars of containment are discussed.

• The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

  • It shifted American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union from détente (a relaxation of tension) to a policy of containment of Soviet expansion as advocated by diplomat George Kennan.
  • The initiative was named after Secretary of State George Marshall.
  • The Plan was largely the creation of State Department officials such as George F.
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• Conclusion: Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

  • It shifted American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union from détente (a relaxation of tension) to a policy of containment of Soviet expansion as advocated by diplomat George Kennan.

• Origins of the Cold War

  • In February 1946, U.S. diplomat George F.
  • Kennan delivered a memo from his post in Moscow which came to be known as the Long Telegram.
  • The Long Telegram sought to explain recent Soviet behavior to Kennan's superiors in Washington, and further advised a hard line against the Soviets.
  • In Kennan's view, Soviet behavior was inherently expansionist and paranoid, posing a threat to the United States and its allies.

• The Muckrakers

  • Ray Stannard Baker, George Creel and Brand Whitlock were active at the state and local level, while Lincoln Steffens exposed political corruption in many large cities; Ida Tarbell went after Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company.
  • Hendrick, George Kennan (explorer), John Moody (financial analyst), Henry Reuterdahl, George Kibbe Turner, and Judson C.
  • Welliver), The Independent (George Walbridge Perkins, Sr.), Outlook (William Hard), Pearson's Magazine (Alfred Henry Lewis, Charles Edward Russell), Twentieth Century (George French), and World's Work (C.M.

• Containment in Vietnam

  • This group included Kennan, Acheson, and other former Truman advisors.

• The Election of 1988

  • The 1988 United States presidential election was defined by the victory of Republican George H.W.
  • Reagan's Vice President George H.
  • The result was a third consecutive Republican landslide victory and George H.
  • Bush's victory percentage – 53.4% — has not yet been surpassed in any subsequent presidential election, and he was the last candidate to get a majority of the popular vote until his son George W.
  • Official portrait of George H.

• Pursuing Both War and Peace

  • In 1775, the Colonies proposed the Olive Branch Petition to reconcile with Britain and avert war, but King George III denied the petition.
  • In August 1775, upon learning of the Battle of Bunker Hill, King George III issued a Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.
  • On October 26, 1775, King George III expanded on the Proclamation of Rebellion in his Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament.
  • King George indicated that he intended to deal with the crisis with armed force.
  • The Proclamation of Rebellion was King George III's response to the Olive Branch Petition.

• The George W. Bush Administration

  • George W.
  • The presidency of George W.
  • The oldest son of former president George H.
  • Bush, George W.
  • President George W.