Date of Award
Spring 5-11-2013
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
Jared Poley, Ph. D.
Second Advisor
Larry Grubbs, Ph. D.
Abstract
Much of the available scholarship today underplays the role of Greece within the context of the Cold War between, the United States and the Soviet Union. The purpose of this study, we will place Greece as the test subject of a modern approach to war by Washington in assuming a neo-colonial master’s role to reconstruct Europe post World War II. The following thesis will challenge the preconceived notion that Greece and the United States entered into this diplomatic arrangement with only the intentions of containing communism. This research will concentrate on the role of political fear, through government legislation and political rhetoric played out in the Cold War. Re-contextualizing the Greek crisis and the Cold War will bring awareness to the early dawn of this ideological war, or as Howard Jones describes it, a new kind of war, and how it was the basis for future foreign interventions by Washington.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/3570275
Recommended Citation
Tzolis, Hristos X., "The Price of Freedom: Greece's Role in the Cold War." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2013.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/3570275