1st Edition
After Sputnik America, the World, and Cold War Conflicts
By Alan J. Levine
Copyright 2018
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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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
- The "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"
- The 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
Biography
Alan J. Levine is a historian and adjunct assistant professor of history at Borough of Manhattan Community College. He specializes in twentieth-century international relations and the history of World War II and the Cold War, and has written eleven books.
