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This dissertation is a study of the “Vietnam Syndrome,” a history of the continued power of the Vietnam War experience as a complicated symbol of previous American foreign policy and its effects on later policies through four presidential administrations. In the wake of the Viet…

Israel's overwhelming military defeat of the forces of three Arab states in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War changed the geography as well as the political landscape of the Middle East. As a result of its victory, Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula of Egy…

The oil shocks of the 1970s, initiated by the first Arab oil embargo in 1973, stunned the industrialized world. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) controlled a resource that was vital to the national well-being and national security of America and its allie…

These pages seek to elucidate why Congress responded to the 1974 Turkish intervention in Cyprus with an arms embargo that cost the United States its highly valued military bases and facilities in Turkey. The decision was at the time attributed to the influence of politically eng…