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020 |a9781351295093|q(e-book: Mobi)
020 |a9781351295123|q(e-book : PDF)
020 |z9781412865128|q(hardback)
020 |z9781412865487|q(paperback)
024 7 |a10.4324/9781351295123 |2doi
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041 |aeng
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049 |aTürk Tarih Kurumu Kütüphanesi
050 4|aE835|b.L48 2018
082 04|a327.73009045|bL665
100 1 |aLevine, Alan J.,|eauthor.
245 10|aAfter Sputnik :|bAmerica, the world, and Cold War conflicts /|cAlan J. Levine.
250 |aFirst edition.
264 1|aNew York :|bRoutledge,|c2018.
300 |a1 online resource
336 |atext|2rdacontent
337 |acomputer|2rdamedia
338 |aonline resource|2rdacarrier
505 00|tchapter Introduction /|r Alan J. Levine -- |tchapter 1 Eisenhower’s Paradise? -- |tAmerica in the Late 1950s /|r Alan J. Levine -- |tchapter 2 Cold War Policy and Military Strategy to 1958 /|r Alan J. Levine -- |tchapter 3 The Enemy -- |tKhrushchev’s USSR /|r Alan J. Levine -- |tchapter 4 The Sputnik Shock /|r Alan J. Levine -- |tchapter 5 The “Missile Gap” and Space Race /|r Alan J. Levine -- |tchapter 6 The Muddled East -- |tThe Middle East Crisis of 1958 and the Lebanon Landing /|r Alan J. Levine -- |tchapter 7 Battle in the Taiwan Strait -- |tThe Second “Quemoy-Matsu Crisis” /|r Alan J. Levine -- |tchapter 8 The Berlin Crisis /|r Alan J. Levine -- |tchapter 9 The Last Domino -- |tAmerican Intervention in the Indonesian Civil War /|r Alan J. Levine -- |tchapter 10 The Rise of the “Maximum Leader” -- |tThe Cuban Revolution, Castro, and Latin America /|r Alan J. Levine.
520 |a"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.
600 10|aEisenhower, Dwight D.|q(Dwight David),|d1890-1969|xMilitary leadership.
600 10|aEisenhower, Dwight D.|q(Dwight David),|d1890-1969|xPolitical and social views.
650 0|aCold War|xDiplomatic history.
650 0|aSpace race|xHistory.
650 0|aSputnik satellites|xPolitical aspects|xHistory.
650 0|aWorld politics|y1955-1965.
651 0|aSoviet Union|xForeign relations|zUnited States.
651 0|aUnited States|xForeign relations|y1953-1961.
651 0|aUnited States|xForeign relations|zSoviet Union.
651 0|aUnited States|xMilitary policy.
776 08|iPrint version: |z9781412865128|w(DLC) 2016051467
856 40|uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351295123|zClick here to view.
901 |aTaylor & Francis