Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II

341 Pages·2018·2.493 MB·English

by  Grant Madsen

Sovereign Soldiers
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Sovereign Soldiers
How the U.S. Military
Transformed the Global Economy
After World War II
Grant Madsen
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Reconstruction(1939–1951)—Japan.(cid:2)Reconstruction(1939–1951)—Germany.
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Contents
ListofAbbreviations ix
Introduction 1
Chapter1.WhentheMilitaryBecameanExternalState 10
Chapter2.TheWar,theEconomy,andtheArmy 25
Chapter3.TheArmyinaTimeofDepression 44
Chapter4.TheArmy,theNewDeal,andthePlanningforthePostwar 61
Chapter5.“ThisThingWasAssembledbyEconomicIdiots” 75
Chapter6.TheArmyCreatesaPlanforGermany 93
Chapter7.AGerman“Miracle” 110
Chapter8.PoliticalProgressinJapan—andEconomicDecline 123
Chapter9.“RecoveryWithoutFiction” 145
Chapter10.Implementingthe“DodgeLine” 162
Chapter11.TrumanandEisenhower 183
Chapter12.“TheGreatEquation” 209
viii Contents
Chapter13.ProtectingtheGlobalEconomy 235
Epilogue 258
Notes 263
Index 321
Acknowledgments 327
Abbreviations
DDEPL DwightD.EisenhowerPresidentialLibrary,Abilene,KS
HSTPL HarryS.TrumanPresidentialLibrary,Independence,MO
NA NationalArchives,CollegePark,MD
JDP JosephM.DodgePapers,DetroitPublicLibrary,Detroit,MI
OJMS Occupation of Japan Microfiche Series, Suitland, MD; Congres-
sional Information Service, Washington National Records Cen-
ter,Bethesda,MD
HSP Henry Stimson Papers, Yale University Library, Microfilm Col-
lection,NewHaven,CT
GML GeorgeC.MarshallResearchLibrary,Lexington,VA
FRUS Foreign Relations of the United States, Government Printing
Office,Washington,DC
PDDE PapersofDwightD.Eisenhower,JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,
Baltimore,MD,1970
APP TheAmericanPresidencyProject,byGerhardPetersandJohnT.
Woolley,http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php