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After Sputnik - America, the World, and Cold War Conflicts (Hardcover)
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After Sputnik - America, the World, and Cold War Conflicts (Hardcover)
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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. 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.
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