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  title info:
    title: After Sputnik
    sub title: America, the world, and Cold War conflicts
  name:
    name part: Levine, Alan J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 215 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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, 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, Levine delves deeply into this often misrepresented period of history, and provides new insight into one of the most formative decades in American history.
  table of 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.
  note: Alan J. Levine.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)
      name part: 1890-1969
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)
      name part: 1890-1969
    topic: Military leadership
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1953-1961
  subject:
    topic: Cold War
    topic: Diplomatic history
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Military policy
  subject:
    topic: World politics
    temporal: 1955-1965
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Sputnik satellites
    topic: Political aspects
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Space race
    topic: History
  classification: E835 .L46 2017
  classification: 327.73009/045
  identifier: 9781412865128
  identifier: 1412865123
  identifier: 9781412865487
  identifier: 1412865484
  identifier: 9781412864626
  identifier: 2016051467
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170414
    record change date: 20180430160618.0
    record identifier: in00003910940