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- Into the Twentieth Century
- The First World War
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- Entangling Alliances
- Détente
- Quest for Peace
- Cold War Denouement
- Toward the Twenty-First Century
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Department History
Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1779
Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1778-1785)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1782)
- Jay, John (1745-1829)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1779)
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs Under the Continental Congress (1784-1789)