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Trask, Roger Reed was born on September 14, 1930 in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Hugh Archie Trask and Martha Ruth Miller.
( The United States Response to Turkish Nationalism and R...)
The United States Response to Turkish Nationalism and Reform, 1914-1939 was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The history of Turkish-American relations in the early years of the twentieth century, before World War II, forms a significant part of the background necessary to an understanding of the present political importance to America of the Middle East. This book, after a brief introduction covering the period before 1914, analyzes in detail the course of relations between Turkey and the United States from the beginning of World War I to the start of World War II. The period which Professor Trask covers in this study was a critical time in both nations' histories. The relations between the two countries varied from cool neutrality (1914) to a rupture of formal ties (1917) to rapprochement (by 1939). Conditions affective Turkish-American contacts included two world wars, a major world depression, and, especially, a Turkish nationalist revolution under the leadership of Kemal Ataturk. Professor Trask analyzes the process of American accommodation to this revolution, with emphasis on diplomatic, political, economic, social, and cultural ties, and points out the implications for the balance of power during World War II and the cold war.
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Trask, Roger Reed was born on September 14, 1930 in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Hugh Archie Trask and Martha Ruth Miller.
Bachelor, Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, 1952. Master of Arts, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1959.
Assistant professor history Upsala College, East Orange, New Jersey, 1959—1962. Assistant professor, then associate professor history Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, 1962—1964. Assistant to professor history Macalester College, St. Paul, 1964—1974.
Professor history University South Florida, Tampa, 1974—1981. Chief historian United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 1977—1978. Deputy chief historian United States Department Defense, 1980—1987, consultant, 1994—2004.
Chief historian United States General Accounting Office, 1987—1993. Independent historian. SP 3 United States Army, 1945-1955, Korea.
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Member of Society History American Foreign Relations (member council 1982-1985), Society History in Federal Government (president 1990-1991, President award 1994), Organization American Historians, American Historian Association, American Polar Society (advisory board oral history since 1999).
Married Dorothy Arlene Buettner, January 14, 1956. Children: Julianne, Laurence, Carolyn.