cold war part 3: the nuclear club grows bombs, bombs, and more bombs. sputnik. space race

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