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John Foster Dulles

(1888—1959) American Republican statesman and international lawyer

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Dulles, John Foster

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Ronald Pruessen

The Oxford Companion to United States History

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2004
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(1888–1959), secretary of state, 1953–1959.

The grandson of Benjamin Harrison's secretary of state John W. Foster, John Foster Dulles...

Fifties, The.

Fifties, The.  

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union dominated American life in the 1950s.The Korean War (1950–1953), a conflict formally fought under the flag of the ...
Nuclear Strategy.

Nuclear Strategy.  

Until 1945, Americans could assume that any wars they fought would not be fundamentally ruinous to their society.The nuclear era challenged that assumption not only because of the destructiveness ...

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