Ronald E. Powaski Explained

Ronald E. Powaski
Birth Date:	15 June 1943
Discipline:	Historian
Sub Discipline:	American historian, 20th-century foreign policy
Education:	John Carroll University Case Western Reserve University
Thesis Title:	Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933
Thesis Year:	1972

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.

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, and Ashland University.

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.^[6]

Books

• Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933. Ronald Edward. Powaski. PhD. Case Western Reserve University. 1972.
• Book: Powaski , Ronald E. . March to Armageddon: the United States and the nuclear arms race, 1939 to the present . registration. Ronald E. Powaski -->. Oxford University Press US. 1987. 978-0-19-504411-9.
• Book: Powaski, Ronald E.. Merton, Thomas. Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton on Nuclear Weapons. Loyola University Press. 1988. 0-8294-0586-0.
• Book: Powaski , Ronald E. . Toward an entangling alliance: American isolationism, internationalism, and Europe, 1901–1950. 1991. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-27274-5.
• Book: Powaski , Ronald E. . The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991. 1998. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-507850-3.
• Book: Powaski , Ronald E. . Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999. 978-0-19-516098-7. 2003. Oxford University Press.
• Book: Powaski , Ronald E. . Lightning War: Blitzkrieg in the West, 1940 . Book Sales, Inc.. 2008. 978-0-7858-2097-0.
• Book: Powaski , Ronald E. . American presidential statecraft: During the Cold War and after. Palgrave MacMillan. 2017. 978-3-319-50453-7. 10.1007/978-3-319-50454-4.

Commentaries

• End the cold war for good. Ronald E.. Powaski. The Christian Science Monitor. April 8, 2002.
• Powaski, Ronald E. "Bush's Nuclear Folly." America 189, no. 3 (August 4, 2003): 7. Education Research Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed March 30, 2010).

External links

• Ronald E. Powaski nndb.com

Notes and References

1. Dr. Ronald E. Powaski Ph.D. [Obituary]]. The Cleveland Plain Dealer. 17 November 2019 .
2. Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933. Ronald Edward. Powaski. Case Western Reserve University. 1972. PhD.

3. Book: Peter B.. Levy. 100 Key Documents in American Democracy (Paperback). Praeger. 1999. 0275965252.

4. Book: Powaski , Ronald E. . Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999. Ronald E. Powaski. 978-0-19-516098-7. 2003. 303. Oxford University Press.
5. Ostrower. Gary B.. Book Review: March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present. Armed Forces & Society. 15 . 1. October 1988. 154–156. 10.1177/0095327X8801500122. 143108269.
6. The Entangling Alliance: The United States and European Security, 1950–1993. By Ronald E. Powaski . Eden. Douglas . The Journal of American History . Oxford University Press. 82 . 2. September 1995. 829. review . 10.2307/2082382. 2082382.