Chronological History of U.S. Foreign Relations

Lester H. Brune was the John and August Olbesby Professor of American Heritage at Bradley University before his retirement. His major publications include The MissileCrisis of October 1962; America and Indochine Wars: ABiographical Guide; The Cuba-Caribbean Missile Crisis ofOctober 1962; and America and the Iraqi Crisis,1990-1992. He has been a Fellow of the Middle Eastern Association and the Harry S. Truman Institute. Richard Dean Burns retired as chair of the History Department at California State University--Los Angeles six years ago and is currently running his own publishing company specializing in scholarly works on foreign policy and ancient history. He is an expert in foreign policy and reference works. He edited the Encyclopedia of ArmsControl and Disarmament, which won the Political Science award from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Arm of the AAP.

Entries include: Alaska Purchase; Barbary Pirates War; Castro in Cuba; Crisis in Iran and Afghanistan; Dawes and Young Plan; Depression Era; Early Canal Diplomacy; European Security; French Alliance; Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty; Korean Airliner Shot Down; Mexican Revolution; Oregon Dispute; Panama and Caribbean Interventions; Relations with Neutral; Spanish War; Suez Crisis; Texas and the Mexican War; The Brazzaville Protocol; The Vietnam Escalation; Treaty of Ghent; Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and NATO; Yalta, Potsdam; and many more