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American historian and teacher (1943–2019)
Dr. Ronald Powaski (1943-2019)
Ronald E. Powaski (June 15, 1943 – November 2019)
[1] was an American
historian and teacher. He taught
American history in high schools and colleges in Ohio and wrote on the
20th century
foreign policies of the
United States and
Europe .
Ronald E. Powaski wrote a book on the
blitzkrieg campaign of the
German military in
World War II .
Biography
Early life and education
Ronald Powaski graduated from
Cathedral Latin High School in 1960. He earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in history from
John Carroll University in 1964 and 1966 and his PhD from
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1972 with a dissertation entitled "Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933".
[2]
Career
Powaski taught history at
Euclid Senior High School in
Euclid, Ohio .
[3]
[4]
He also taught at
Cleveland State University ,
John Carroll University ,
[4] and
Ashland University .
Cover of March to Armageddon
In 1989 he published March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present .
[5] In the next two decades, he published 11 books covering the nuclear arms race, the creation of NATO, World War II, presidential statecraft, and presidential foreign policies.
[5]
[6]
Books
Powaski, Ronald Edward (1972). Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933 (PhD).
Case Western Reserve University .
Powaski, Ronald E. (1987). March to Armageddon: the United States and the nuclear arms race, 1939 to the present .
Oxford University Press US.
ISBN
978-0-19-504411-9 .
Powaski, Ronald E.;
Merton, Thomas (1988).
Thomas Merton on Nuclear Weapons . Loyola University Press.
ISBN
0-8294-0586-0 .
Powaski, Ronald E. (1991).
Toward an entangling alliance: American isolationism, internationalism, and Europe, 1901–1950 . Greenwood Publishing Group.
ISBN
978-0-313-27274-5 .
Powaski, Ronald E. (1998).
The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 .
Oxford University Press .
ISBN
978-0-19-507850-3 .
Powaski, Ronald E. (2003). Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999 . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-516098-7 .
Powaski, Ronald E. (2008). Lightning War: Blitzkrieg in the West, 1940 . Book Sales, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-7858-2097-0 .
Powaski, Ronald E. (2017). American presidential statecraft: During the Cold War and after . Palgrave MacMillan.
doi :
10.1007/978-3-319-50454-4 .
ISBN
978-3-319-50453-7 .
References
^
"Dr. Ronald E. Powaski Ph.D. [Obituary]" .
The Cleveland Plain Dealer . 17 November 2019.
^ Powaski, Ronald Edward (1972). Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933 (PhD).
Case Western Reserve University .
^
Levy (1999 , p. 502):
Levy, Peter B., ed. (1999). 100 Key Documents in American Democracy (Paperback) . Praeger.
ISBN
0275965252 .
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a
b
Powaski, Ronald E. (2003).
Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999 . Oxford University Press. p. 303.
ISBN
978-0-19-516098-7 .
^
a
b Ostrower, Gary B. (October 1988). "Book Review: March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present".
Armed Forces & Society . 15 (1): 154–156.
doi :
10.1177/0095327X8801500122 .
S2CID
143108269 .
^ Eden, Douglas (September 1995).
"The Entangling Alliance: The United States and European Security, 1950–1993 . By Ronald E. Powaski" . The Journal of American History (review). 82 (2). Oxford University Press: 829.
doi :
10.2307/2082382 .
JSTOR
2082382 .
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