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Tensions Increase in the Cold War

Tensions Increase in the Cold War. The US and the Soviet Union face off with nuclear weapons The Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb in 1949 The US monopoly on nuclear power had only lasted for four years The US tested the first hydrogen bomb (H bomb) in 1952

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Tensions Increase in the Cold War

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  1. Tensions Increase in the Cold War

  2. The US and the Soviet Union face off with nuclear weapons • The Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb in 1949 • The US monopoly on nuclear power had only lasted for four years • The US tested the first hydrogen bomb (H bomb) in 1952 • 67 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima • The Soviets tested their first H bomb less than a year later

  3. Video • Watch the video below and take notes on how to save yourself from the threat of a nuclear explosion

  4. Dwight D. Eisenhower became President of the US in 1953 • Eisenhower pursued a policy called brinkmanship • Brinksmanship: repeatedly going to the edge (brink) of all-out war • More open to the idea of using nuclear weapons in a war • Cut the budgets of the Army and Navy and put more money into the Air Force and nuclear programs • Eisenhower had an important Secretary of State named John Foster Dulles • Strongly anti-communist • Pushed for intervening in any country that might be leaning toward communism • Created the Eisenhower Doctrine • The US would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country

  5. The Warsaw Pact • Read “The Warsaw Pact” and look at the map on page 830 and answer the following questions • What was the Warsaw Pact? • How might the Warsaw Pact have been connected with Soviet fears following WWII?

  6. The Hungarian Uprising • Read “The Hungarian Uprising” on pages 831-832 and answer the following questions • What happened in Hungary in 1956? • How did the Soviet Union respond? • How did the US respond?

  7. In the late 1950’s, air and space technology served to increase tensions between the US and the Soviet Union • In the 1950’s, Stalin was replaced by Nikita Khrushchev as the leader of the Soviet Union • Compared to Stalin, Khrushchev was far more open to cooperation with the US • The Space Race began when the Soviets launched the first ever artificial satellite: Sputnik • The US scrambled to catch up, beginning a competition that would last throughout the 1960’s • The US used spy planes over the Soviet Union • The U-2 flew high enough that, it was believed, the Soviets would be unable to detect or shoot it down • In May, 1960, a U-2 was shot down over the Soviet Union, two weeks before a conference between Eisenhower and Khrushchev • Tension between the two countries skyrocketed afterward

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