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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Thomas, J

Titel

Roosevelt, Franco, and the End of the Second World War

Auflage

1st ed.

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 In this follow-up to Roosevelt and Franco during the Second World War, Joan Maria Thomàs examines relations between the U.S. and Spain from 1942 to 1945, when the Roosevelt Administration and the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to challenge the Franco Regime, culminating in the Battle of Wolfram and the embargo of petroleum products. Drawing on documents from the State Department, the Roosevelt Presidential Library, Ambassador Hayes' administration, the documents of General Franco, and the Spanish Minister of External Affairs, this book offers valuable new insights into American and European diplomacy during World War II 13 02 Joan María Thomàs  is Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. 19 02 COMPLEMENTS FIRST BOOK: This book is the companion volume to the existing Palgrave title Roosevelt and Franco during the Second World War. FILLS A NICHE: Together with the first book, this volume constitutes the first work in either English or Spanish to deal with the full range of US-Spanish relations for the entire period of World War II. EXTENSIVE NEW RESEARCH: The book draws on significant original research in both English and Spanish archives, uncovering a wealth of diplomatic records from the period. 04 02 Relations between the United States and Spain under Franco: from Pearl Harbor to the beginnings of the Battle of Wolfram (December 1941- September 1943) * Return of Spain to neutrality and the beginnings of the Battle of Wolfram . The Laurel Incident (September- December1943) * The Battle of Wolfram (January-May 1944) * Relations between the US and Spain from the Wolfram agreement till the end of the Second World War in Europe (May 1944- May 1945) * United States and Spain from the end of the war in Europe till the start of   diplomatic isolation of the Franco regime (May 1945- March 1947)