TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gatzke,Hans W.
TI  - Germany and the United States: A "Special Relationship" 
T2  - The American Foreign Policy Library
SN  - 9780674418240
AV  - E183.8.G3 
U1  - 327.43 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - International relations
KW  - Politik
KW  - Relations extérieures
KW  - Germany -- Foreign relations -- United States
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
KW  - United States -- Foreign relations -- Germany
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Preface --; Contents --; Maps --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Germany The Land and the People --; 2. Germany and the United States 1776–1914 --; 3. World War I A Turning Point, 1914–1918 --; 4. The Weimar Republic A Democratic Interlude, 1918–1933 --; 5. Hitler and the “Third Reich” 1933–1939 --; 6. World War II The End of the German Reich, 1939–1945 --; 7. One Germany or Two? Occupation, 1945–1949 --; 8. The Germany of Konrad Adenauer 1949–1963 --; 9. From Adenauer to Brandt 1963–1974 --; 10. The German Federal Republic since 1974 --; 11. The German Democratic Republic since 1961 --; 12. Conclusion A “Special Relationship”? --; Suggested Reading, Index --; Suggested Reading --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access
N2  - Beginning with Bismarck's forging of a nation with "iron and blood," Gatzke tells of Germany's relentless struggle for domination in Europe and in the West, its defeat in two world wars, its division, East Germany's travail, and West Germany's search for identity as a modern democratic state. A discerning statement about Germany and other nations, this book reevaluates for the general reader and the historian the impact of rapid industrialization, the origins of the world wars, the question of war guilt, the decade of Weimar democracy, and the rise and fall of Hitler. Gatzke looks anew at the economic miracle in West Germany and the consequences of making prosperity the cornerstone of a new republic. It is to the realities of these German characteristics as an evolving nation-state that Gatzke relates American foreign policy and perceptions. He recounts the American fluctuations, from favorable to hostile to friendly, as Germany's policies and fortunes changed, and he places the division of Germany in historical perspective
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418257
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674418257
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