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Living on the Edge: 1950s Brinkmanship

Living on the Edge: 1950s Brinkmanship. What are the Cold War policies of the 1950s?. The Arms Race. 50’s Cold War policy is brinkmanship. Each country tries to push each other to the “brink” of war to get an advantage 1949: Soviets develop & test their own atomic weapon

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Living on the Edge: 1950s Brinkmanship

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  1. Living on the Edge:1950s Brinkmanship What are the Cold War policies of the 1950s?

  2. The Arms Race • 50’s Cold War policy is brinkmanship. Each country tries to push each other to the “brink” of war to get an advantage • 1949: Soviets develop & test their own atomic weapon • 1952: US develops the more powerful Hydrogen Bomb, Soviets have H-Bomb in 1953 • “Arms Race” develops between two countries http://video.google.com/video play?docid=-3597507450536748258

  3. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) • John Foster Dulles is Eisenhower’s Sec of State • If Soviets attack US interests, US will use massive nuclear retaliation, as will Soviets • US CIA & Soviet KGB begin spying programs • 1953: Stalin dies, is replaced by Nikita Khrushchev - Mid-1950: Soviet Union develops Vostok Rocket, could deliver Nuke to US

  4. Suez Canal Crisis • 1956: Egyptian Pres Nasser seizes British-controlled Suez Canal • Britain, France, Israel take back the canal & then occupy parts of Egypt , Nasser asks UN to intervene • Soviets say this is an example of western imperialism, Nasser seeks alliance with USSR • UN Security Council convinces Britain, France, and Israel to leave Egypt & return canal (US abstains) • Soviets gaining influence in Mid East • Eisenhower Doctrine: US will defend Mid East against any Communist attack

  5. - Eisenhower fears nuclear war. Authorizes CIA chief Allen Dulles to overthrow foreign governments that become communist Cold War Spreads Around the World 1953: Pro-American Shah flees Iran, PM Mosaddeq nationalizes Iran’s oil wells, CIA backed coup removes PM, returns Shah to power 1954: Socialist Jacobo Arbenz elected President of Guatemala, CIA- backed coup removes him from power, army leader rules country

  6. Cold War in the Skies • Oct ‘57: Soviets launch first satellite “Sputnik”, starts Space Race • Nov ’57: launch Sputnik II with Laika the dog on board • Eisenhower starts Nat’l Defense Ed. Act – gives billions to school science programs & forms NASA • Proposes “open skies policy” – Khrushchev refuses, U-2 spy plane shot down over Soviet Union

  7. US Cold War Foreign Policy Eisenhower Doctrine Arms & Space Race Containment Policy Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Mutual Assured Destruction

  8. Identify people, word and objects • Identify actions • Identify symbols • What point is cartoonist trying to make?

  9. Identify people, word and objects • Identify actions • Identify symbols • What point is cartoonist trying to make?

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