cold war at home -3

COLD WAR AT HOME -3

Quiz

1. __________ ____________ was a Cold War, anti-Communist activist from Wisconsin who was looking to make a bold statement by calling out all of the “Communists” in the American government.

2. Why did the Republicans somewhat embrace this man?

3. In the early 1950’s, the US and Soviets engaged in a race for the ___ - Bomb. This bomb was generally believed to be at least 67x more powerful than the Atomic Bomb.

4. The willingness to go to the brink, or edge of war, was referred to as what?

5. Who became president after Truman?

ATOMIC BOMB FIGURES• WW II ATOMIC BOMBS:

– 1000 TONS OF TNT = 1 “KILOTON”– WW II BOMBS = 13,000 TONS = 13 KILOTONS

• 1952 “HYDROGEN” BOMB:– 1 MIL. TONS OF TNT = 1 “MEGATON”– HYDROGEN BOMB = 3 MIL. TONS OF TNT = 3

MEGATONS• 1955: U.S. HAD 30,000+ MEGATONS OF

NUCLEAR WEAPONRY• ALL EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE USED BY ALL

NATIONS IN WWII ADDED TOGETHER = 1.2 MEGATONS

Eisenhower Relied heavily on

the newly formed CIA Led covert

operations in the Middle East and Latin America

Warsaw Pact Stalin dies in 1953 West Germany is allowed to join NATO Soviets respond with Warsaw Pact

Eastern European nations (satellite countries)

Summit in Geneva “Open skies” proposal by Eisenhower Quickly shot down by Soviets

Eisenhower Doctrine US would defend

the Middle East against attack by any Communist country

Nikita Khrushchev Publicly criticized Stalin Had the Soviet Union softened?

Cold War – The Sky and Beyond

ICBM – intercontinental ballistic missiles Both sides claimed to have powerful ICBM

October 4, Sputnik is launched (USSR) First satellite in space ICBM showed it had easily enough force to

deliver a nuclear warhead anywhere on Earth

U-2 Secret missions

designed to fly over Soviet air space

Eisenhower wanted the flights discontinued

Last flight – Francis Gary Powers was brought down US denied the facts USSR glorified the

facts

U-2 incident Powers sentenced to 10 years in prison Served 17 months, then exchanged to

US for a Soviet spy named Rudolf Abel