Cold War at Home -3
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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