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Definition: Acheson, Dean Gooderham from Philip's Encyclopedia

US statesman, secretary of state (1949-53) under Harry S Truman. Acheson's desire to restrict the growth of communism was fundamental to the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the ANZUS Pact, and the Marshall Plan.

Acheson, Dean Gooderham

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(ăch'ĭsӘn), 1893–1971, U.S. secretary of state (1949–52), b. Middletown, Conn., grad. Yale, Harvard Law School. He was (1919–21) private secretary to Louis Brandeis , became a successful lawyer, and served (1933) as undersecretary of the treasury until he resigned in disagreement with President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's fiscal policy. Having been assistant secretary of state (1941–45) and a key actor in the Bretton Woods Conference , then undersecretary of state (1945–47), he was appointed (Jan., 1949) secretary of state. Beginning in 1946 Acheson became convinced of the necessity of resisting and restraining the Soviet Union. Under his direction the policy of using foreign economic and military aid to contain Communist expansion, as enunciated in the Truman Doctrine, was developed, and the Marshall Plan was implemented. He also played an important role in establishing (1949) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Acheson's attempts to dissociate the United States from the…
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Full text Article Acheson, Dean

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Lawyer and statesman. Acheson, secretary of state (1949–53) under President Harry S. Truman , influenced U.S. foreign policy following World War II . As a developer of the Marshall Plan , he assisted in the economic recovery of Europe. He helped engineer the North Atlantic Treaty Organization…
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US lawyer and politician. As Under-Secretary (1945-7) and then Secretary of State (1949-53) in the Truman administration, he helped to establish the Marshall Plan (1947) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I…
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Full text Article Dean Acheson 1893–1971

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Full text Article Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893 to 1971)

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