Eisenhower and American Public Opinion on China

• Main Author: Oliva, Mara (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-History.; World history.; United States-Politics and government.; International relations.; China-History.; US History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; US Politics.; Foreign Policy.; History of China.

In the 1950s, most of the American public opposed diplomatic and trade relations with Communist China; traditional historiography blames this widespread hostility for the tensions between China and the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. In this book, Mara Oliva reconsiders...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. America's Distorted Image of China
• 3. Keeping Promises
• 4. Challenge One: Dienbienphu and the Geneva Conference of 1954
• 5. Challenge Two: The First Taiwan Crisis of 1954-1955
• 6. A Missed Opportunity
• 7. Hard Line Until the End
• 8. Conclusions.