Brad,
   Whether or not these "had"'s should be included is a context sensitive
issue. I would say that a typical audience for this kind of analysis is
larwasedy aware that the cold war was preceeded by the depression and
world war II and certainly understood that Germany and japan were
defeated in World War II and tha>

 In context, do the five 'had's belong in or out?
>
>   "Beyond containment, the major thrust of American Cold War diplomatic
> foreign policy was to return the defeated enemies, Germany and Japan, to
> the emerging international system as full-fledged members. This task,
> unprecedented in respect to nations on which unconditional surrender
> (had been) was imposed less than five years earlier, made sense to a
> generation of American leaders whose formative experience (had been) was
> overcoming the Great Depression of the 1930s. The generation that
> organized resistance to the Soviet Union (had) experienced Franklin D.
> Roosevelt's New Deal, which (had) restored political stability by
> closing the gap between American expectations and economic reality. The
> same generation (had) prevailed in World War II, fought in the name of
> democracy."
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