Book chapter
The Cold War on the Periphery: 1953–1989
The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History
2013
Abstract
While the Korean and Vietnam Wars were the hot conflicts of the Cold War, on the periphery,
a more low-level proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in
several other developing nations during the years 1953-1989. During six presidencies-those of
Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and
Ronald Reagan (Jimmy Carter was an exception)—an average of about four American military
interventions, or lesser forms of forceful attempted regime changes, occurred.1 This part of the
book presents case studies of five of them-Guatemala 1954, Cuba 1961, Chile 1970-1973,
Dominican Republic 1965, and Grenada 1983-but these should be seen in the context of
coercive U.S. action in at least fifteen other sites in countries where the U.S. or the USSR
sparred for influence.2
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Details
- Title
- The Cold War on the Periphery: 1953–1989
- Creators
- Michael Joseph Sullivan - [Retired Faculty]
- Contributors
- Christos Frentzos (Editor)Antonio Thompson (Editor)
- Publication Details
- The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85088724860
- Other Identifier
- 991019173758604721