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American Foreign Policy and Yugoslavia, 1939–1941 by Ivo Tasovac |
In American Foreign Policy and Yugoslavia, 1939–1941, Ivo Tasovac contends that Yugoslavia acted as an unwilling prop for American involvement in World War II. As a result of America's alliance with Britain and of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt's shared eagerness for conflict and suppression of Germany, the war and ensuing Communist takeover of Eastern Europe were inevitable.
With Yugoslavia cast as the endangered barrier between the Germans and the Mediterranean, Churchill was able to establish an unquestionable need for U.S. military action. Tasovac contends that pressure from the British government and the American diplomats investigating the situation forced the Serbian coup d'etat to overthrow Prince Paul of Yugoslavia when he appeared to be sympathetic to Germany, even though the Serbians had no intentions of fighting.
With the ingredients for conflict in place, the ensuing struggle for Yugoslavian freedom was unavoidable. Tasovac documents and analyzes the decisions and policies that made this action so detrimental to Yugoslavia and other Balkan states.
This study is ideal for a broad audience of scholars, including those interested in NATO policies applied to the Balkan states, the relationship between the United States and those states, Franklin D. Roosevelt's influence on the world stage during his presidency and World War II, and the history of Yugoslavia as a whole.
IVO TASOVAC, a graduate of University of California at Berkeley, continued graduate studies in European history and librarianship, also at Berkeley. He was appointed as a subject specialist and bibliographer at the University of Utah Library, where he continued his education in American diplomatic history.
Number Eleven: Eastern European Studies
American Foreign Policy and Yugoslavia, 1939–1941
ISBN 0-89096-897-7 cloth $39.95s
LC 99-25263. 6 1/8x9 1/4. 264 pp. no illus. Bib. Index. Apps.
Eastern Europe. Diplomatic Studies.
Publication Date: December 1999.
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