Two Nations Live on the Edge

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Two Nations Live on the Edge

• Chapter 18.4

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Weapons Race

• Hydrogen Bomb
• US v Soviets
• US tests H-bomb 1952 after Soviets test A-bomb
• Soviets test H-bomb - 1953

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Brinkmanship

• John Dulles Sec of State
• Brinkmanship (change from containment)
• US willingness to go all out to stop the spread
  of communism
• Expanded Air Force
• Built up nukes programs
• School practiced bomb drills
• Families built bomb shelters

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Cold War Spreads Around the World

• CIA Central Intelligence Agency
• Covert operations
• Mid East
• Britain boycotted in Iran
• US feared Iran would turn to Soviets for help
• CIA brought back former Iranian leader (Shah)
• Oil fields now controlled by W. countries
• And you wonder why they hate us

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Cold War Spreads Around the World

• Warsaw Pact
• Soviet military alliance
• Response to newly militarized W. Ger
• The Soviet version of NATO
• Summit in Geneva
• open skies policy Ike suggests nuclear attack
  protection by being able to fly over each others
  territory
• Soviets reject this

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Cold War Spreads Around the World

• Suez War
• Egypt takes control of Br/Fr owned Suez Canal
  after US refuses to loan them for a dam
• Israel, Br, Fr send troops
• UN steps in and stops aggression

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Cold War Spreads Around the World

• Eisenhower Doctrine US would protect Mid East
  from Communism
• Hungarian Uprising
• Hungary revolts against Soviets
• US/UN do not aid Hungary
• 30,000 Hungarians are killed

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Cold War Takes to the Skies

• Nikita Khrushchev new Soviet leader
• Sputnik artificial satellite
• Soviets launch 1957
• Starts US space program
• U2 Scandal
• U2 spy planes flying over Soviet
• Problems
• Ike sends one last operations
• Francis Gary Powers is shot down, imprisoned for
  10 years in Soviet Union
• Ike would not apologize heightening hostilities

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