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COLD WAR IN THE ATOMIC AGE
11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.
3) Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment
policy.
- The Soviet Union tested their first nuclear bomb in ___________________________________
- _______________ (1950): Report which made the case for anti-Soviet military buildup; defense
budget jumped from 5% of the GDP to 20% of the GDP; beginning of the nuclear arms race
- In September 1952 the United States tested the first ___________________________________
- ______________________________ became president three days after the test
- Like Truman, Eisenhower was a passionate ________________________________
- Stalin died in 1953 and was replaced by ____________________________________________
- Eisenhower felt he needed alternatives to _______________________ and ________________
- Eisenhower reduced military spending and began a policy called _________________________
- Massive Retaliation: ______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
- There are two flaws in the policy of Massive Retaliation:
- The U.S. only had two responses ___________________________________________
- The U.S.S.R. was not about to allow the U.S. to get ahead in the __________________
- This stance was known as “______________________” because it could cause the U.S. to be pushed
to the brink of war at any time the soviets acted
- Massive Retaliation naturally led to the doctrine of ___________________________________
- Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD): ___________________________________________
- In order to help contain Soviet aggression Eisenhower surrounded China and the U.S.S.R. with
_________________________
- In ________________ the Soviets tested their first H-Bomb
- In 1954 the U.S. tested the largest H-Bomb yet in the South Pacific: the fallout spread 350 miles from
blast zone.
- In 1957 the U.S.S.R. tested the first ICBM: _________________________________________
- That same year, the U.S.S.R. launched _____________________________, the first space craft
- In response, Eisenhower created ___________________ to help close the gap and poured billions of
dollars into educating scientists and engineers
- At the end of his presidency Eisenhower warned the American public to be wary of the
_______________________________________ which he felt could threaten freedom in the U.S.