TY - BOOK AU - Currie,Ruth Douglas TI - Kwajalein Atoll, the Marshall Islands and American policy in the Pacific /Ruth Douglas Currie SN - 9781476626321 AV - DU710 .K835 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Jefferson, North Carolina PB - McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; America claims the Pacific --; National competition in the nineteenth century --; Versailles and the Japanese mandate --; World War II --; Truman, the United Nations and U.S. control --; Trust territory of the Pacific islands --; The Congress of Micronesia --; Micronesian status politics --; Free association --; To the twenty-first century; 2; b N2 - "This book focuses on the islanders' tenacious negotiations for independence and control of their land, accomplished as the Republic of the Marshall Islands in a Compact of Free Association with the U.S. The creation of American policy in the Pacific was a struggle between the U.S. departments of the Interior and State"-- UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1406064&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -