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The H-Bomb Test: Nov. 1952

The H-Bomb Test: Nov. 1952. Bikini Atoll, South Pacific. Some Americans created shelters in their backyards in case of nuclear attack. Massive Retaliation/Brinksmanship Doctrine. On January 12, 1955 U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles first announces the doctrine of Massive Retaliation.

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The H-Bomb Test: Nov. 1952

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  1. The H-Bomb Test: Nov. 1952 Bikini Atoll, South Pacific

  2. Some Americans created shelters in their backyards in case of nuclear attack

  3. Massive Retaliation/Brinksmanship Doctrine • On January 12, 1955 U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles first announces the doctrine of Massive Retaliation. • It threatens full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in response to communist aggression anywhere in the world. John Foster Dulles and MacArthur in Korea, 1950

  4. Missle Silo for Sale

  5. Warsaw Pact (1955) • U. S. S. R. • Albania • Bulgaria • Czechoslovakia • East Germany • Hungary • Poland • Rumania

  6. NATO WARSAW NEUTRAL

  7. COVERT ACTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST • One of the first covert operations occurred in the Middle East • In Iran the U.S. orchestrated the return of the pro-U.S. Shah of Iran in 1953 The last Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

  8. COVERT OPS IN LATIN AMERICA • In 1954, the CIA also took covert actions in Guatemala (a Central America country just south of Mexico) • The U.S. believed Guatemala was on the verge of becoming Communist, so the CIA trained an army which invaded the small country • The actions eventually failed as a military dictator rose to power

  9. Here’s a question, folks: Was it ok to assassinate and/or overthrow democratically elected leaders of other countries if they are socialist and have ties to the Soviet Union ?

  10. The Suez Crisis: 1956-1957

  11. The Hungarian Uprising: 1956 Imre Nagy, HungarianPrime Minister • Promised free elections. • This could lead to the end of communist rule in Hungary.

  12. Sputnik I (1957) The Russians have beaten America in space—they have the technological edge!

  13. Premier Nikita Khrushchev About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist.If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don'tinvite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you. -- 1956 De-Stalinization Program

  14. 1956 - Khrushchev's secret speech' • In a speech, February 14, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces the policies of Stalin. • He rejects the Leninist idea of the inevitability of war and calls for a doctrine of "peaceful coexistence" between capitalist and communist systems. 1959 Kitchen debate

  15. U-2 Spy Incident (1960) Col. Francis Gary Powers’ plane was shot down over Soviet airspace.

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