[PDF] Cold War Wisconsin eBook

Author : Christopher Sturdevant
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1439665648

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As the Cold War gripped the world with fear of espionage and nuclear winter, everyday Wisconsinites found themselves embroiled in the struggle. For decades, the state's nuclear missiles pointed to the skies, awaiting Soviet bombers. Joseph Stalin's daughter sought refuge in the small town of Richland Center. With violence in Vietnam about to peak, a cargo ship from Kewaunee sparked a new international incident with North Korea. Manitowoc was ground zero for a Sputnik satellite crash, and four ordinary Madison youths landed on the FBI's most wanted list after the Sterling Hall Bombing. Local author and chairman of the Midwest Chapter of the Cold War Museum Chris Sturdevant shares the tales of the Badger State's role in this titanic showdown between East and West.

Author : Bob Frankenstein
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1426997167

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It is time for you to slip quietly inside the minds of ordinary people of the small community of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin who are coping with a counterfeit peace, fighting wars undeclared, with goals undetermined, grievances unclear, issues unresolved..the gory details hidden safely underground, in cemeteries. Join me as we walk in the shoes of heroes of this little community.

Author : Matthew Levin
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 0299292835

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As the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated in the 1950s and 1960s, the federal government directed billions of dollars to American universities to promote higher enrollments, studies of foreign languages and cultures, and, especially, scientific research. In Cold War University, Matthew Levin traces the paradox that developed: higher education became increasingly enmeshed in the Cold War struggle even as university campuses became centers of opposition to Cold War policies. The partnerships between the federal government and major research universities sparked a campus backlash that provided the foundation, Levin argues, for much of the student dissent that followed. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, one of the hubs of student political activism in the 1950s and 1960s, the protests reached their flashpoint with the 1967 demonstrations against campus recruiters from Dow Chemical, the manufacturers of napalm. Levin documents the development of student political organizations in Madison in the 1950s and the emergence of a mass movement in the decade that followed, adding texture to the history of national youth protests of the time. He shows how the University of Wisconsin tolerated political dissent even at the height of McCarthyism, an era named for Wisconsin's own virulently anti-Communist senator, and charts the emergence of an intellectual community of students and professors that encouraged new directions in radical politics. Some of the events in Madison—especially the 1966 draft protests, the 1967 sit-in against Dow Chemical, and the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing—have become part of the fabric of "The Sixties," touchstones in an era that continues to resonate in contemporary culture and politics.

Author : Christopher Sturdevant
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 143967048X

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From Walt Disney and Ronald Reagan to chess matches and Nike missiles, trace the Illinois roots of prominent players in the longest and costliest conflict in American history. Discover a mobster's involvement in assassination attempts of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and how the nuclear age began at a college football field on Chicago's south side. Visit the graves of Communist Party leaders and the high-alert heritage of military bases across the state. Local author Christopher Sturdevant, chairman of the Midwest Chapter of the Cold War Museum, follows up his look into Cold War Wisconsin with its neighbor to the south in a fascinating tale of Illinois's role in the fight between East and West.

Author : Thomas H. Schaub
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299128449

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Schaub presents American fiction in the political climate of its time. Through the 1930s, he portrays authors as typically left of center and becoming disillusioned with communism as a result of Stalin's purges and his nonaggression pact with Hitler. Subsequent authors embraced a His general discussion comes to focus on the works of Barth, O'Connor, Ellison, and Mailer. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Christopher Sturdevant
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1467140309

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"As the Cold War gripped the world with fear of espionage and nuclear winter, everyday Wisconsinites found themselves embroiled in the struggle. For decades, the state's nuclear missiles pointed to the skies, awaiting Soviet bombers. Joseph Stalin's daughter sought refuge in the small town of Richland Center. With violence in Vietnam about to peak, a cargo ship from Kewaunee sparked a new international incident with North Korea. Manitowoc was ground zero for a Sputnik satellite crash, and four ordinary Madison youths landed on the FBI's most wanted list after the Sterling Hall Bombing. Local author and chairman of the Midwest Chapter of the Cold War Museum Chris Sturdevant shares the tales of the Badger State's role in this titanic showdown between East and West."--Back cover.

Author : Timothy J. Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521199875

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Examines American engagement with the world from the fall of Soviet communism through the opening years of the Trump administration.

Author : Patrick Iber
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0674286049

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Patrick Iber tells the story of left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars who worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations during the Cold War. Ultimately, they could not break free from the era’s rigid binaries, and found little room to promote their social democratic ideals without compromising them.

Author : Wisconsin Public Television
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Page : pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870204173

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To the veterans, the Korean War was anything but the "Forgotten War." The passion of their memories comes through in this two-part program. The Wisconsin Korean War Stories documentary remembers and commemorates the service people who went to a place halfway around the world — a country only twice the size of Wisconsin — to engage in hot battles of the Cold War. The Wisconsin Korean War Stories project is a partnership of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Public Television. This project includes the companion book Wisconsin Korean War Stories.