Title After Sputnik : America, the world, and Cold War conflicts / Alan J. Levine

Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages) Contents Eisenhower's paradise? : America in the late 1950s -- Cold War policy and military strategy to 1958 -- The enemy : Khrushchev's USSR -- The Sputnik shock -- "Missile gap" and space race -- The Muddled East : the Middle East crisis and the Lebanon landing -- Battle in the Taiwan Strait : the second "Quemoy-Matsu Crisis" -- Berlin Crisis -- The last domino : American intervention in the Indonesian Civil War -- The rise of the maximum leader : the Cuban Revolution, Castro and Latin America Summary "On October 4, 1957 in the midst of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first artificial earth satellite. For the West, and especially the United States, it was a shattering blow to national morale and pride. It led to a deep-seated fear that the Soviet Union would surpass the United States in both technology and power and that even nuclear war might be near. After Sputnik shows that the late 1950s were not an era of complacency and smugness, but were some of the most anxious years in American history. The Cold War was by no means a time of peace. It was an era of a different kind of battle--one that took place in negotiations and in the internal affairs of many countries, but not always on the battlefield. While many choose to remember President Eisenhower as a near-pacifist, his actions in Lebanon, the Taiwan Straits crisis, Berlin, and elsewhere proved otherwise. Seconded by his able secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, he steered America though some of the most difficult parts of the Cold War, not always succeeding, but preventing disaster. The Middle East and Berlin crises, the Indonesian Civil War, Fidel Castro's rise to power, and other events are all bluntly discussed in the light of Western, and other, illusions and delusions. In this engaging history, Alan J. Levine delves deeply into this often misrepresented period of history, and provides new insight into one of the most formative decades in American history."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Political and social views Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Military leadership SUBJECT Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 fast Subject Cold War -- Diplomatic history World politics -- 1955-1965. Sputnik satellites -- Political aspects -- History Space race -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Command of troops Diplomacy Diplomatic relations Military policy Political and social views Space race World politics SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140099 United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379 United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140115 Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125763 Subject Soviet Union United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781351295109 1351295101 9781351295116 135129511X 9781351295123 1351295128

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