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Arms Race September 2 1949 USSR Tested their first nuclear weapon October 1949 China fell to the communists January 1950 Truman ordered Atomic Energy Commission to build the H Bomb 1000 X more powerful than A bomb ID: 391521

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Cold War Crisis BuildsSlide2

Arms Race

September 2, 1949

USSR Tested their first nuclear weapon

October 1949

China fell to the communists

January 1950

Truman ordered Atomic Energy Commission to build the H Bomb (1,000 X more powerful than A bomb)

Perpetual arms race began

Airplanes, submarines, missiles built to destroy the world

Mutually

A

ssured Destruction (MAD)

Each country used its weapons as a shield hoping the threat of destruction would prevent the use of it.Slide3

Foreign Policy

Truman

Believed in containing communism

Entered foreign conflicts started by the USSR draining resources

Defense

Dept

budget $50.5 billion

Eisenhower

Felt that Communism was the greatest threat to American way of life

Opposed conventional forces

Ordered stockpiling of weapons for nuclear war

Defense

Dept

budget $35.8 billion

Brinkmanship introduced Slide4

Radiation and Fall out

Alaskan lichens affected by radiation

Atmosphere contained radiation

Nevada desert residents suffer from long term health problemsSlide5

Poland & Hungary

1956 Poland

Polish workers rioted and won power in the government

Poland stayed with the Warsaw Pact, so the USSR allowed the resistance

1956 Hungary

Hungarian students rioted against USSR control

Soviet soldiers marched on Hungary, executing hundreds and restored more harsh soviet controlSlide6

Suez Crisis

Egypt’s President

Nassar

Wanted to construct a dam on the Nile River

USA & Great Britain initially offered to fund the project

Egypt recognized communist China as a country and opened negotiations with USSR for trade forcing USA and Great Britain to back out of the project

Nassar responded by nationalizing the Suez Canal

Britain & France joined with Israel to retake the canalCreated tensions between USA & the other nationsSlide7

Eisenhower Doctrine

January 1957 Eisenhower addressed the Soviet influence in the Middle East

US would use force to help any Middle Eastern nation resist communist threat

Used this as a precedent to send troops to Lebanon in 1958

CIA assigned to protect American Interests in the Cold War

1953 installed Pro-American leader in Iran

1954 installed Pro-American leader in Guatemala Slide8

Space Race

October 1957

Soviets Launched

Sputnik 1

Following the success of Sputnik they launched a larger satellite with a dog

Laika

National Defense Education Budget passed$1 billion targeted to educate scientistsNASA created to counteract USSR advancements