Keeping Tito Afloat: The United States, Yugoslavia, and the Cold War, 1945-1960

Keeping Tito Afloat draws upon newly declassified documents to show the critical role that Yugoslavia played in U.S. foreign policy with the communist world in the early years of the Cold War. After World War II, the United States considered Yugoslavia to be a loyal Soviet satellite, but Tito surprised the West in 1948 by breaking with Stalin. Seizing this opportunity, the Truman administration sought to keep Tito afloat by giving him military and economic aid. President Truman hoped that American involvement would encourage other satellites to follow Tito\u27s example and further damage Soviet power. However, Lees demonstrates that it was President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who most actively tried to use Tito as a wedge to liberate the Eastern Europeans… [From Amazon.com]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/history_books/1015/thumbnail.jp