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Chapter 26 Section 4 Two Countries Living on the Edge

Chapter 26 Section 4 Two Countries Living on the Edge. Objectives. We will discuss how life was like in the United States during the Cold War. Along with that we will cover how the world reacted to the Cold War. Vocabulary. H-Bomb Dwight D. Eisenhower John Foster Dulles Brinksmanship CIA

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Chapter 26 Section 4 Two Countries Living on the Edge

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  1. Chapter 26 Section 4Two Countries Living on the Edge

  2. Objectives • We will discuss how life was like in the United States during the Cold War. • Along with that we will cover how the world reacted to the Cold War

  3. Vocabulary • H-Bomb • Dwight D. Eisenhower • John Foster Dulles • Brinksmanship • CIA • Warsaw Pact • Eisenhower Doctrine • Nikita Kruschev • Francis Gary Powers • U-2 Incident

  4. Nuclear Weapons • USSR detonates its first atomic bomb in 1949. • What is Truman to do?

  5. Bigger, Bader, Bolder • Manhattan Project • H-Bomb • 70 times stronger • 1952 USSR made one

  6. 1952 Election • 22nd Amendment • Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) • Adlai Stevenson (D)

  7. Brinksmanship • Secretary of State John Foster Dulles • Anti-Communist • Brinkmanship • Build up the army to the edge of war.

  8. How I Learned How to Love the Bomb • Civil Defense • Education • Posters • Movies • Drills

  9. Now a Word From Our Sponsor

  10. The Cold War Spreads • Eisenhower starts a new agency. • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) • Gather information and conduct covert operations.

  11. Remember NATO? • How would the USSR feel about it? • 1955 • Warsaw Pact • Seven Eastern European nations united to protect each other.

  12. Flying the Friendly Skies • Geneva convention of 1955 • Eisenhower proposed “open skies” • We can fly over USSR and USSR can fly over the US.

  13. The Suez War 1956 • Building the Aswam High Dam • Egypt tried getting money • US stopped funding • Suez Canal was closed • UN Became involved

  14. Eisenhower Doctrine • January 1957 • US would defend the Middle East against any communist attack.

  15. A New Soviet Leader • Stalin died in 1953 • Nikita Krushchev • Wanted communism spread

  16. Space Race • October 4, 1957 • Sputnik • US would follow

  17. Space Race (cont.) • January 31, 1958 • Explorer 1

  18. A U-2 is Shot Down • “Open Skies” • U-2 Spy Plane • Francis Gary Powers • U-2 Incident • 10 year sentence • Served 21 months

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