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Domination and Resistance: The United States and the Marshall Islands During the Cold War

Domination and Resistance: The United States and the Marshall Islands During the Cold War

Smith-Norris, Martha

Hardcover

Australia & OceaniaTechnology & Engineering20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0824847628
ISBN13: 9780824847623
Publisher: Univ Of Hawaii Pr
Published: Jan 31 2016
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Domination and Resistance illuminates the twin themes of superpower domination and indigenous resistance in the central Pacific during the Cold War, with a compelling historical examination of the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. For decision makers in Washington, the Marshall Islands represented a strategic prize seized from Japan near the end of World War II. In the postwar period, under the auspices of a United Nations Trusteeship Agreement, the United States reinforced its control of the Marshall Islands and kept the Soviet Union and other Cold War rivals out of this Pacific region. The United States also used the opportunity to test a vast array of powerful nuclear bombs and missiles in the Marshalls, even as it conducted research on the effects of human exposure to radioactive fallout.

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