[PDF] The United States And Venezuela During The First World War eBook

Author : H. Micheal Tarver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1498511104

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This book details the diplomatic relations between the United States and Venezuela during a pivotal time in world history. Through the utilization of archival materials and newspaper accounts, the author highlights the words of the major participants to demonstrate how the two nations worked together – sometimes hand-in-hand, sometimes face-to-face – to prevent the European War from spreading to the Western Hemisphere. Despite several efforts to develop hemispheric unity during the War, Venezuelan leaders perceived the policy of neutrality to be in the best interest of the country's national sovereignty. This book explores the personalities of the chief executives and selected diplomats to illustrate how both personnel and personalities molded their nation’s foreign relations. In the end, while perceived as two very different individuals who pursued different paths during the global conflict, the leadership styles of President Woodrow Wilson and General Juan Vicente Gómez were more alike than they realized. The overall cordial relations between the two nations during the period under review helped establish the foundation for the petroleum bonanza that United States companies would enjoy in the following years.

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493031937

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Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germany’s Eastern Front victories and its nearly war-winning Western Front offensives, and he did not hesitate in his answer. “The American infantry,” he said. He made it even more specific, telling the reporter that the final death blow for Germany was delivered by “the American infantry in the Argonne.” The British and the French often denigrated the American contribution to the war, but they had begged for US entry into the conflict, and their stake in America’s victory was, if anything, even greater than that of the United States itself. But How America Won WWI will not litigate the points of view of Britain and France. The book will accepts as gospel the assessment of the top German leader whose job it had been to oppose the Americans directly - that the American infantry won the war - and this book will tell how the American infantry did it.

Author : David M. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 0195027299

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Considers the implications of America's involvement in World War I for intellectuals, minorities, politicians, and economists

Author : Stefan Rinke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107127203

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This book is a comprehensive study of Latin America during the First World War from a transnational perspective.

Author : Peter Englund
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0307739287

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An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.

Author : Aragorn Storm Miller
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0826356885

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Miller analyzes US-Venezuelan relations during the 1950s and 1960s as a case study for the broader political dynamics of the hemisphere and beyond during the critical period of the global Cold War. He addresses the perception that US foreign policy toward Latin America was an overwhelming failure in which initiatives intended to promote democracy and modernization, and to insulate the hemisphere from the ideological struggles of the global Cold War, reaped only authoritarian regimes, uneven and sluggish economic growth, and abstract debates over capitalism and communism that distracted attention from Latin America’s pressing socioeconomic problems. Precarious Paths to Freedom demonstrates that Washington rather achieved success by cultivating a partnership with a democratizing Venezuela. From 1958 onward US policymakers identified Venezuela as the crucial bulwark against political extremism and as the ideal partner in the creation of a modernized, prosperous, and pro-US Latin America.

Author : Jane M. Rausch
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0739187740

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In the horrific conflict of 1914–1918 known first as “The Great War” and later as World War I, Latin American nations were peripheral players. Only after the U.S. entered the fighting in 1917 did eight of the twenty republics declare war. Five others broke diplomatic relations with Germany, while seven maintained strict neutrality. These diplomatic stances, even those of the two actual belligerents—Brazil and Cuba—did little to tip the balance of victory in favor of the allies, and perhaps that explains why historians have paid scant attention to events in Latin America related to the war. Nevertheless, it is still remarkable that Percy Alvin Martin’s classic account, Latin American and the War, first published in 1925, remains the standard text on the topic. This book attempts to redress this gap by taking a fresh look at developments between 1914 and 1921 in one of the neutral nations—Colombia. This period, which coincides with the presidency of José Vicente Concha (1914–1918) and his successor, Marco Fidel Suárez (1918–1921), is filled with momentous developments not only in foreign policy, when Colombian diplomats pressured by German, British and U.S. propaganda struggled to maintain strict neutrality, but also on the domestic scene as the newly installed Conservative regime faced political and economic crises that sparked numerous and violent protests. Rausch's examination of the administrations of Concha and Suárez supports Martin’s assertion that even those countries neutral in the Great War were not immune from its effects.

Author : Daniel Malloy Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN :

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A short history of American involvement in WWI, from initial confusion and neutrality, to eventual rejection of isolationism, to entry into the war, to the final refusal to sign the Versailles Treaty or participate in the League of Nations.

Author : Anne Cipriano Venzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1135684537

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First Published in 1999. Includes six maps.

Author : Steve Ellner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742554566

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Before 1989, US scholars emphasized Venezuela's status as an exceptional Latin American nation. Most importantly, it served as an ideal model for US policy in Latin America. All this changed in the mass unrest during the week of February 27, 1989. This book explores the changing attitudes about Venezuela and it's role in the rest of the world.