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Cold War Part 3:The Nuclear Club Grows
Bombs, bombs, and more bombs.Sputnik.
Space RaceEisenhower Doctrine
U2 Crisis
Tsar Bomb
Fears this will lead to a build up and then
it will be....
NORADNorth American Defense
Command
Hydrogen Bombs, Tsar Bombs, MAD -
Mutual Assured Destruction
DETERRENCE
EisenhowerDoctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
We reserve the right to protect the Middle East (and by that we mean Israel)
ANZUSand
SEATO
Trade and quasi military organizations
ANZUSAustralia, New Zealand, & the U.S.
SEATOSouth East Asian Treaty Organization
Sputnik
Sputnik - 1957 USSR launches the first space
satellite
Sputnik•Russians beat us to it - their technology must be good
• If they can put a satellite up in space then they must be able to shoot nuclear missiles all the way over to us!
• time to invest lots of money into US science and math programs so we can catch up with the Soviets
Leads To...
The Space Race
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Leads To...
More Bomb Testing•testing on land
outlawed.
•testing in air ok
•testing in water ok
•the nuclear race is on!
• lots of spying to find out what the other side has
Geneva Convention•Stalin finally died!
New ruler of USSR is Krushchev
•Krushchev (USSR) and Eisenhower (US) meet at Geneva, Switz to discuss “open skies”
•the idea was open skies would mean less spying...more transparency
•except....something embarrassing happened
U2 Spy Plane1960 US Pilot Gary Powers’ U2 plane was shot down over the
Soviet UnionA local boy from Pound, VA
Time of fear and folly and spy games
U2 motto: “In God we trust. All others we monitor.”
U2 Crisis•Eisenhower was at the Geneva
summit with Russian Krushchev
•Discussing reducing nuclear stockpiles.
•With the U2 incident it was clear America was spying
•The Geneva summit was called off
•Cold War attitudes hardened
MisinformationThe Reality:1. May 1960-Feb 19622. 3 months isolation, 3 day trail, 18 months Vladavitch prisonReleased, flown to E. Germany, woken at 4 am, driven 1 hour in circle. End up on cold, dark, foggy morning at Potsdam, Germany
Very few witnessed the exchange of the American Gary Powers for the Russian spy Rudolf Abel. They walked across their 2 respective countries
Terms to KnowMAD - Mutual Assured Destruction
Berlin Wall