After Sputnik (Paperback)

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