1. CHAPTER 15
SECTION ONE
THE COLD WAR UNFOLDS ~

2. 1949, the Soviet Union develops atomic bomb.
Arms race
U.S the hydrogen bomb

3. U.S. Brinksmanship- 1953-1961 John Foster Dulles
"The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art“
Massive retaliation

7. 1953 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet leader
1 De-stalinization- criticism of Stalin’s abuse of power
2. Eastern bloc countries seek reform

9. 1957, Soviet scientists shocked the world by launching Sputnik, the world's first human-made satellite.
1. Americans fear Soviet science and technology.
2. The United States improves math and science education.

11. 1958 Hungarian Revolution Crushed by Soviet Tanks
U.S. Does Not Intervene
Leaders executed

12. The Kitchen Debate U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow on July 24, 1959.

13. 1960- the Communists build the Berlin Wall which becomes a symbol of a divided world

18. Cuban Missile Crisis pits Khrushchev against Kennedy
1959 communist takeover led by Fidel Castro
1961 Bay of Pigs invasion
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

30. 1968 Countries from Warsaw Pact invade Czechoslovakia
Alexander Dubcek
Communism with a human face
Prague Spring
Soviet intervention

33. Soviet Leonid Brezhnev takes power in 1964
Neo-Stalinism
The Brezhnev Doctrine- oppose US forces everywhere in the Third World to weaken US resolve in western Europe

34. Kennedy succeeded by Lyndon Johnson who escalates war against Soviet client states in Vietnam in 1965

35. 1972 US policy of détente-a lessening of tensions
Richard Nixon
Henry Kissinger- balance of power politics
Rapprochement with China

36. Nixon Visits China 1972
Nixon Visits Soviet Union 1972

38. 1982 Détente ends with Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Ronald Reagan-”The evil empire”
Massive US military spending-MAD
SDI=“Star Wars”
First strike capability

39. Death Of Brezhnev 1982

40. The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989.
Insurgent groups known as the mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army

41. 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev
Last Leader of Soviet Union