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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--together with foreign language publications to shed light on the role the United States played in Greece between the termination of its civil war in 1949 and Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus. Miller demonstrates how U.S. officials sought, over a period of twenty-five years, to cultivate Greece as a strategic Cold War ally in order to check the s

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--together with foreign language publications to shed light on the role the United States played in Greece between the termination of its civil war in 1949 and Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus. Miller demonstrates how U.S. officials sought, over a period of twenty-five years, to cultivate Greece as a strategic Cold War ally in order to check the s.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Problem of Stabilization -- Notes -- Part I: Involvement -- 1. American Liberals and the Fascist Challenge, 1940-1943 -- The Fascist Challenge -- Liberals and Fascism -- The Anti-Fascist Coalition -- American Antifascism at War, 1941-1943 -- Notes -- 2. The Politics of Surrender, January-October 1943 -- Roosevelt and Postwar Reconstruction -- The State Department and Italy's Future -- Mussolini's Fall and Its Impact -- Armistice Politics -- Sforza or Badoglio -- Defining American War Aims -- Notes -- Part II: Occupation -- 3. Allies at Odds, October 1943-June 1944 -- A Soviet Role in Italy? -- Deadlock in Italy -- Soviet Intervention -- Compromise -- Notes -- 4. A New Deal for Italy, June 1944-May 1945 -- Rome, At Last -- Toward a New Deal -- The Quebec Conference and a New Policy -- Elaborating the New Policy -- Notes -- Part III. Reconstruction -- 5. Reconstruction: American Plans and Italian Realities, 1944 -- Building Italian Democracy -- Epurazione Mancata -- The Wind from the North -- Internal Security -- Italy's Role in the International Order -- Outlining a Peace Treaty -- Venezia Giulia -- Economic Relief -- Notes -- 6. Italy and American Hegemony, 1945 -- Containing the Left -- The Prospects for Peace -- Border Problems -- The Potsdam Conference -- Peace Talks in London -- Testing the Economics of Free Trade -- The Italy Lobby -- Notes -- 7. The Reconstruction Stalls, 1946 -- Completing Italy's Political Reconstruction -- The Institutional Question -- Internal Security -- A Peace through Compromise -- Economic Stagnation -- Notes -- Part IV. Stabilization -- 8. Crisis and Intervention: The Reorientation of American Policy, January 1947-April 1948 -- Elements of the Crisis -- The De Gasperi Visit -- The Ratification Fight -- A Military or Economic Response?.