Volunteer Freedom Corps:A Special Attempt for the U.S. to Use Escapees during the Early Cold War

  • ZHAO Ji-ke
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Online published: 2017-09-28

Abstract

In order to alleviate the great pressure of the U.S.military,shortly after his taking office,Eisenhower proposed to mobilize European escapees to establish "Volunteer Freedom Corps" to contribute to the common Europe defense.In order to achieve this objective,the Eisenhower administration did make efforts at home and abroad.However,because the Cold War tensions were reduced and the U.S.changed its Cold War strategies,and some personnel changes made negative influence,Eisenhower finally decided to abandon this initiative,and instead adopted other methods to use escapees to meet the demand of the Cold War.Through the analysis of VFC,this paper is to reveal how the U.S.made unremitting efforts to win the Cold War on the one hand and the limit of the Cold War confrontation on the other.

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ZHAO Ji-ke . Volunteer Freedom Corps:A Special Attempt for the U.S. to Use Escapees during the Early Cold War[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2017 , 49(5) : 125 -132 . DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2017.05.015

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