The Cold War: Eisenhower
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The Cold War: Eisenhower
Ch 13.4
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Friday, May 11, 2012
• Understand the effects of the “new look” policy, Massive Retaliation, the U-2 incident and Sputnik on the Cold War.
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Eisenhower’s New Look
• Eisenhower wanted “more bang for the buck” in the military. He emphasized a smaller Army and a larger Nuclear arsenal.
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Think About it…
• Why does no one win a Nuclear War?
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Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
• Fear of massive retaliation stopped both sides from using their Nuclear weapons.
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U-2 incident
• The United States sent the U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union.
• The Soviets shot down the U-2 and captured pilot Francis Gary Powers.
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Cold War: Space Race Quotes
• From the Washington Post (Jan. 28th 1958)• The Air Force’s top space expert predicted yesterday
the moon will be a military rocket base for either Russia or the US within 10 years. Brig. Gen. Homer A. Boushey, deputy director of Air Force research and Development said the moon will provide a “base of unequaled advantage” for raining “sure and massive destruction” on earth.
• The General said “he fully supports the view that ‘He who controls the moon, controls the Earth.’”-Brig. Gen. Homer A. Boushey
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The Sputnik Crisis
• The Soviets launched Sputnik, the world’s first satellite in Space.
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CIA
• The gov’t created the Central Intelligence Agency for containment in developing nations.
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Military Industrial Complex
• Eisenhower warned the American people as he left office to be careful of the influence of the defense industry on military spending.
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NASA’s part of the Federal Budget
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NASA
• Congress responded by creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to compete with the Soviet Union.