Eisenhower & The Cold War

Read Chapter 26, section 4, Two Nations Live on Edge, (pages 828-833). This section discusses the Hydrogen Bomb, Brinkmanship, the CIA in the Middle East and Latin America, the Warsaw Pact, the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Space Race, and the U-2 Incident. Please place your answer to your blog.
Title: Eisenhower & The Cold War Labels: Space_Race, Sputnik, Eisenhower_Doctrine, U-2_Incident, Brinkmanship, H-Bomb, Cold_War


This is due Thursday, April 8 prior to class.


How did the United States react to the following 7 events, and why?

1. The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in 1949.
This triggered fear in the US and the two superpowers began competing in an amrms race.

2. In 1951, the Iranian prime minister placed the oil industry in Iran under the Iranian government’s control.
The US was afraid that they would turn to the Soviet's for help after Britain stopped buying from them and gave them lots of money.

3. The Guatemalan head of government gave American-owned land in Guatemala to peasants.
The CIA took over the Guetemalan government because they thought they were communist sympathizers.

4. In 1956, Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt and occupied the Suez Canal.
The Eisenhower doctrine said that the US would protect the middle east from communist countries, this is because the Soviet union was winnning support from Egypt.

5. Soviet tanks invaded Hungary and fired on protesters in 1956.
The United states did not help them because the Truman doctrine did not extend to non-satellite countries. The hungarians were very disapointed.


6. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.
The United States began investing a lot of oney into their space programs as to not let the Soviets get ahead of them. In 1958 the US launched its first satellite.

7. In 1960, the Soviet Union brought down an American U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers.
Eisenhower initiall denied that it was a plane for spying but the Soviet's had evidence against it and demamded an apology. Eisenhower refused to appologize and the Soviet Leader Krushchev refused to attend the summit. This inicdent renewed tensions between the Soviets and the US.