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How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (and the arms race, and the alliance system)

How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (and the arms race, and the alliance system). Actually, you should just call these notes “the arms race.” sorry. The alliance system. Label these countries on your study guide (if possible). NATO. THE WARSAW PACT. Albania Bulgaria

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How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (and the arms race, and the alliance system)

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  1. How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (and the arms race, and the alliance system) Actually, you should just call these notes “the arms race.” sorry.

  2. The alliance system

  3. Label these countries on your study guide (if possible) NATO THE WARSAW PACT Albania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary Poland Romania USSR • Belgium • Canada • Denmark • France • Iceland • Italy • Luxembourg • Netherlands • Norway • Portugal • UK • USA

  4. nato • Date: 1949 • Mutual defense organization of western capitalist democracies • All members will respond to an attack on any member

  5. The warsaw pact • Date: 1955 • Mutual defense organization of eastern communist dictatorships • Two major goals: • Provide defensive alliance for Eastern Bloc • Maintain USSR control over satellite states’ militaries

  6. In your notebook • How might the alliance system make the world safer? • How might the alliance system make the world less safe?

  7. The arms race

  8. Nuclear weapons • Highly explosive devices developed during WWII • US dropped first nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 • USSR tested first nuclear weapon on August 29, 1949

  9. The arms race • Date: roughly 1945-1990 • Definition: competition between the US and the USSR to develop greater military capacity • Significance • Required huge military expenses • Made the world more dangerous… or did it?

  10. Some new weapons

  11. Thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs

  12. Intercontinental ballistic missiles (icbms)

  13. Tsar bomba

  14. Nuclear submarines

  15. Chemical and biological weapons

  16. The space race

  17. Civil defense • Civil defense shelters • Preparedness efforts • Education efforts – Bert the Turtle

  18. So why aren’t we all dead? • Key concept of the Cold War: mutual assured destruction (MAD) • Principles of MAD: • Each side maintains enough offensive capacity to annihilate the other side • Huge arms stockpiles are a deterrent – they discourage offensive attacks

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