Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece
Author: Gonda Van Steen
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0472038818

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Greece and the Cold War

Greece and the Cold War
Author: Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134154879

This is the first study to present a comprehensive analysis of Greek foreign and internal policy during the Cold War, covering the key period from the country’s accession to NATO in 1952 until the imposition of the colonels’ dictatorship in 1967. Clearly divided into three parts: 1952-55, 1955-63 and 1963-67, this book deals with Greek foreign policy analysis; threat perception; the NATO connection (including Greek-US relations, the rise of anti-Americanism in 1955-58 and in 1964-67, the economic dimension of security and the issue of US military aid); Greek policy towards the Soviet bloc; and the regional dimension, mainly Greek policy towards Turkey and Yugoslavia, and (for the 1964-67 years) the Cyprus crisis which greatly complicated Greek security obligations. This book will be of great interest to students of Greek politics, Balkans history, the Cold War and strategic studies.

Britain and the United States in Greece

Britain and the United States in Greece
Author: Spero Simeon Z. Paravantes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350142026

For the first time, Britain and the United States in Greece provides an in-depth analysis of Anglo-American diplomacy in Greece from 1946 to 1950. After Word War II, as Europe floundered economically, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee looked to disengage Britain from some of its broad international obligations and increase American support for its new foreign agenda. One place he sought to do so was in Greece. Spero Simeon Z. Paravantes reveals how the relationship between Britain and the US developed in this formative period, arguing that Britain used the fast-escalating tensions of the Cold War to direct US policy in Greece and encourage the Americans to take a more active role – effectively taking Britain's place – in the region. In the process, Paravantes sheds new light on how the American experience in Greece contributed to the formulation of the Truman Doctrine and the containment of communism, the structure of Greek institutions, and ultimately, the birth of the Cold War. Drawing on a wide range of sources from Britain, the US, Greece and the Balkans, this book is essential reading for all scholars looking to gain fresh insight into the complex origins of the Cold War, 20th-century Anglo-American relations, and the history of modern Greece.

The United States and the Making of Modern Greece

The United States and the Making of Modern Greece
Author: James Edward Miller
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807832472

Focusing on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history and in the history of the Cold War, James Edward Miller provides the first study to employ a wide range of international archives_American, Greek, English, and French_t

Red Acropolis, Black Terror

Red Acropolis, Black Terror
Author: Andre Gerolymatos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2004-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN:

The first full, nonpartisan history of the Greek Civil War, the brutal guerrilla conflict that launched the Cold War

Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979

Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979
Author: E. Karamouzi
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781137331328

Eirini Karamouzi explores the history of the European Economic Community (EEC) in the turbulent decade of the 1970s and especially the Community's response to the fall of the Greek dictatorship and the country's application for EEC membership. The book constitutes the first multi-archival study on the second enlargement of the EEC.

The Kapetanios

The Kapetanios
Author: Dominique Eudes
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 1973
Genre: History
ISBN: 085345275X

The complicated and dramatic course of the Civil War in Greece had, for lack of parties interested in reconstructing the truth of its events, never been narrated prior to the appearance of this volume. It closed a gap in the history of our times, and did so with thoroughness and vivid journalistic immediacy. In addition to the known sources and unpublished documents, the author relied on testimony painstakingly collected from survivors of the tragedy who were scattered throughout the world. It remains the authoritative account of the kapetanios, the guerrilla chiefs who organized the partisans in the Greek mountains.

The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East

The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East
Author: Bruce Robellet Kuniholm
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400855756

Bruce Kuniholm takes a regional perspective to focus on postwar diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece and efforts in these countries to maintain their independence from the Great Powers. Drawing on a wide variety of secondary sources, government documents, private papers, unpublished memoirs, and extensive interviews with key figures, he shows how the traditional struggle for power along the Northern Tier was a major factor in the origins and development of the Cold War between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Colonels' Coup and the American Embassy

The Colonels' Coup and the American Embassy
Author: Robert V. Keeley
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 027105011X

The so-called Colonels&’ coup of April 21, 1967, was a major event in the history of the Cold War, ushering in a seven-year period of military rule in Greece. In the wake of the coup, some eight thousand people affiliated with the Communist Party were rounded up, and Greece became yet another country where the fear of Communism led the United States into alliance with a repressive right-wing authoritarian regime. In military coups in some other countries, it is known that the CIA and other agencies of the U.S. government played an active role in encouraging and facilitating the takeover. The Colonels&’ coup, however, came as a surprise to the United States (which was expecting a Generals&’ coup instead). Yet the U.S. government accepted it after the fact, despite internal disputes within policymaking circles about the wisdom of accommodating the upstart Papadopoulos regime. Among the dissenters was Robert Keeley, then serving in the U.S. Embassy in Greece. This is his insider&’s account of how U.S. policy was formulated, debated, and implemented during the critical years 1966 to 1969 in Greek-U.S. relations.

Greece and the Cold War

Greece and the Cold War
Author: Alexander Kazamias
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2022-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1848859996

Following the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, which provided economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent them from falling to communism, the US became deeply involved in Greek affairs. By 1952, however, the pro-Western Greek government of Marshal Papagos had begun to support Greek nationalism in Cyprus, and was demanding an end to British colonial rule on the island. The opposition of the US, Britain and Turkey to these demands brought Greece face-to-face with its closest allies at the United Nations and led to the outbreak of the first major crisis within NATO since its creation. Alexander Kazamias here analyses these events from the perspective of critical international theory and exposes the unexplored connections between dependence and nationalism in Greek foreign policy. This book will appeal to scholars and students of the Cold War, decolonization, diplomacy and Modern Greek history