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Gender in Foreign Policy. III. The Immediate Postwar.

Part II here.

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1. After WWII, things start to get interesting, although diplomacy at the beginning of the fifties (European Coal and Steel Community)

2. looks a lot like diplomacy at the end of the fifties (signing the LTBT).
schuman.wikispaces.com/European+Coal+…
atomicarchive.com/History/coldwa…

3. But women had played a big part in WWII, particularly on the industrial side. They were becoming more aware of careers outside the home.

4. The immediate reaction, however, was to make happy nuclear families.

5. But a former military man, Dwight D. Eisenhower, took some steps away from what had been conventional foreign policy.

6. Truman had already reined in General Douglas MacArthur's excessive military ambitions.

7. Eisenhower refused to go along with Britain and France's desire to rein in that former colonial, Gamel Abdel Nasser.

8. Colonialism was ending, although Eisenhower took early steps toward the US taking up France's part in Vietnam.

Women played a large part in protesting atmospheric nuclear testing, which resulted in the LTBT, signed by all those men you saw.

10. There's more to say about the start of the Cold War during this period, which will be the next installment.