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Bombs, bombs, and more bombs.
Cold War Part 3: The Nuclear Club Grows Bombs, bombs, and more bombs. Sputnik. Space Race Eisenhower Doctrine U2 Crisis
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Fears this will lead to a build up and then it will be.... NORAD
Tsar Bomb Fears this will lead to a build up and then it will be.... NORAD North American Defense Command
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Hydrogen Bombs, Tsar Bombs, MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction DETERRENCE
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Eisenhower Doctrine
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Eisenhower Doctrine We reserve the right to protect the Middle East (and by that we mean Israel)
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Trade and quasi military organizations
ANZUS and SEATO Trade and quasi military organizations
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Australia, New Zealand, & the U.S.
ANZUS Australia, New Zealand, & the U.S.
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South East Asian Treaty Organization
SEATO
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Sputnik
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Sputnik - 1957 USSR launches the first space satellite
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Sputnik Russians beat us to it - their technology must be good
If they can put a satellite up in space then they must be able to shoot nuclear missiles all the way over to us! time to invest lots of money into US science and math programs so we can catch up with the Soviets
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Leads To... The Space Race
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Leads To... More Bomb Testing testing on land outlawed.
testing in air ok testing in water ok the nuclear race is on! lots of spying to find out what the other side has
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Geneva Convention Stalin finally died! New ruler of USSR is Krushchev
Krushchev (USSR) and Eisenhower (US) meet at Geneva, Switz to discuss “open skies” the idea was open skies would mean less spying...more transparency except....something embarrassing happened
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U2 Spy Plane 1960 US Pilot Gary Powers’ U2 plane was shot down over the Soviet Union A local boy from Pound, VA Time of fear and folly and spy games U2 motto: “In God we trust. All others we monitor.”
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U2 Crisis Eisenhower was at the Geneva summit with Russian Krushchev
Discussing reducing nuclear stockpiles. With the U2 incident it was clear America was spying The Geneva summit was called off Cold War attitudes hardened
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Misinformation The Reality: 1. May 1960-Feb 1962
2. 3 months isolation, 3 day trail, 18 months Vladavitch prison Released, flown to E. Germany, woken at 4 am, driven 1 hour in circle. End up on cold, dark, foggy morning at Potsdam, Germany Very few witnessed the exchange of the American Gary Powers for the Russian spy Rudolf Abel. They walked across their 2 respective countries
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MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction
Terms to Know
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Berlin Wall
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