Ronald E. Powaski

Ronald E. Powaski
Ronald E. Powaski
	Dr. Ronald Powaski (1943-2019)
Born	June 15, 1943
Died	November 2019(aged 76)
Academic background
Education	John Carroll University; Case Western Reserve University
Thesis	Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933(1972)
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	American historian, 20th-century foreign policy
Institutions	Euclid Senior High School; Cleveland State University; John Carroll University; Ashland University;

Ronald E. Powaski(June 15, 1943 – November 2019)^[1]was an Americanhistorianand teacher. He taughtAmerican historyin high schools and colleges in Ohio and wrote on the20th century foreign policiesof theUnited StatesandEurope.

Biography[edit]

Early life and education[edit]

Ronald Powaski graduated fromCathedral Latin High Schoolin 1960. He earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in history fromJohn Carroll Universityin 1964 and 1966 and his PhD fromCase Western Reserve Universityin Cleveland in 1972 with a dissertation entitled "Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933".^[2]

Career[edit]

Powaski taught history atEuclid Senior High SchoolinEuclid, Ohio.^[3]^[4] He also taught atCleveland State University,John Carroll University,^[4]andAshland University.

In 1989 he publishedMarch 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[edit]

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 PressUS.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.

Commentaries[edit]

Powaski, Ronald E. (April 8, 2002)."End the cold war for good".The Christian Science Monitor.
Powaski, Ronald E. "Bush's Nuclear Folly."America189, no. 3 (August 4, 2003): 7. Education Research Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed March 30, 2010).

References[edit]

^"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.
^^a ^bPowaski, 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 ^bOstrower, 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.

External links[edit]

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[PDobit-1] "Dr. Ronald E. Powaski Ph.D. [Obituary]".The Cleveland Plain Dealer.17 November 2019.

[CWRU-2] Powaski, Ronald Edward (1972).Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933(PhD).Case Western Reserve University.

[Levy-3] Levy (1999,p. 502): Levy, Peter B., ed. (1999).100 Key Documents in American Democracy (Paperback).Praeger.ISBN 0275965252.

[Armageddon-4] 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.

[Ostrower-5] 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-6] 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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