Date of Award
Spring 5-2014
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
History
Department
History
Major Professor
Bischof, Günter
Second Advisor
Millett, Allan
Third Advisor
Goss, Andrew
Fourth Advisor
Mokhiber, James
Abstract
Abstract
For most of the Cold War, the United States attempted to maintain friendly relations with the Communist nations comprising the Eastern Bloc, but with no other Soviet satellite was the relationship as close as it was with Romania. No other member nation of the Warsaw Pact took to the United States’ overtures so eagerly. Diplomatic relations between the United States and the Romanian Communist government were established relatively early, almost immediately following the end of the Second World War. However, it was not until 1968, when Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu denounced the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, that the Romanians finally gained the Americans’ trust. Ceauşescu’s 1968 speech attacking the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the diplomatic maneuverings surrounding it, was the pivotal moment in the relationship between the two nations, fostering an amicable relationship that would last well into the 1980s.
Recommended Citation
Hebert, Paul R., "A Calculated Risk: The Effects of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Denunciation of the 1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia on US-Romanian Relations" (2014). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1806.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1806
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