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Transcript of Warm-Up:. Read aloud as a group about the The Cold War and a Divided World on pages 479-480 of the...
Warm-Up:
Read aloud as a group about the The Cold War and a Divided World on pages 479-480 of the textbook. Add the following terms to your notes:
NATO Warsaw Pact brinkmanship U-2 Incident
Rival Alliances
NATO-alliance between the United States, Canada and ten Western European nations
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)
Warsaw Pact-alliance between the Soviet Union and its communist Eastern European allies
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Nuclear Threat
November 1952
U.S. tested H-Bomb
August 1953Soviets detonate thermonuclear weapon
First H Bomb Test (2:19)
Tsar Bomb (3:11)
Brinkmanship-
willingness of the superpowers to go to the brink, or edge, of nuclear war to force their rival to back down
Nikita Krushchev
John Kennedy
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuclear Stockpiling in Cold War
# of nuclear
warheads
U-2 Incident• Open sky policy proposed by
President Eisenhower
• Rejected by the Soviet Union
• United States CIA – Sends secret spy plane over Soviet territory.
• Soviets shot the U-2 plane down and captured the pilot (imprisoned for 19 months).
• U-2 Incident brought mistrust between the superpowers to a new height!
Cold War in the Skies
Sputnik 1- first satellite to be launched into space
Apollo 1- pre-launch fire killed three astronauts
Soviet UnionOctober 1957
United StatesFebruary 1967
NASA
Write a ½-page response to the following:
What is brinkmanship?
What did this policy risk?
Do you agree or disagree with this policy?
Why?