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The Cold War Heats Up
Arms Race
• 1945 United States becomes the first country to use the atomic bomb – dropping it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII
• 1949 Soviet A-bomb is tested in Siberia
• 1952 American Hydrogen bomb
• 1953 Soviet Hydrogen bomb
NSC-68
• January 1950 under President Truman
• Report suggested that the U.S. should begin a massive buildup of weapons to stay ahead of the Soviets
1953 – New Leaders, New Policy?
• Dwight Eisenhower – new U.S. President
• Stalin dies, replaced by Nikita Khrushchev
• Peaceful Coexistence U.S. and USSR can exist together without conflict
1953 – New Leaders, New Policy?
• “Open Skies” – Ike proposed that each country allow aerial photographs so each side could inspect the other’s military installations
• Khrushchev rejected this
• Ike began using the new U-2 spy planes
Sputnik (1957)
It’s the end of the world as we know it!!!
Space Race
• 1957 - Soviets launch first satellite into space - Sputnik I
• This satellite was launched by a intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) – this could potentially carry a nuclear warhead to the U.S.
• U.S. puts money and resources into math and science education and schools
• Leads to the creation of NASA
Space Race
• 1958 - America follows - Explorer I
• 1961- Soviet Yuri Gagarin becomes first person to orbit the earth
• 1962 - John Glenn becomes the 1st American to orbit the earth
• 1969 - America lands on the moon Apollo 11
It’s the end of the world as we know it!!!
How to survive a nuclear attack
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Satellites – No mo’ communism?
• How did the Soviets respond to the uprising in Hungary?
• How did the Soviets try to prevent people from escaping from East Berlin to West Berlin?
Fidel Castro
Let’s take him out
• La Brigada – anti-Castro Cubans trained by the CIA under Eisenhower
• Bay of Pigs Invasion – President Kennedy ordered La Brigada to land in Cuba and take out Castro (April 17, 1961)
• Complete failure – boats ran into coral reefs, Kennedy cancelled air support to keep U.S. involvement a secret, Castro’s forces captured and killed all of La Brigada
Cuban Missile Crisis
• October 14, 1962 – a U2 spy plane discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba
• World was on the brink of nuclear war for 13 days
It’s the end of the world as we know it!!!