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... capabilities to Europe -NSC-30: American reliance on nuclear weapons against Soviet conventional forces • Formation of NATO, April of 1949: mutual defense guarantees, integrated military structure ...
... capabilities to Europe -NSC-30: American reliance on nuclear weapons against Soviet conventional forces • Formation of NATO, April of 1949: mutual defense guarantees, integrated military structure ...
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[HIS 212] The twentieth century: Some basic events
... 1958: collapse of 4th Republic in France; Gen. de Gaulle empowered to refound Republic; establishes 5th Republic and is elected President [1960s: decolonization] ...
... 1958: collapse of 4th Republic in France; Gen. de Gaulle empowered to refound Republic; establishes 5th Republic and is elected President [1960s: decolonization] ...
U9coldwarPP
... The Hydrogen Bomb – 1953: Soviets test bigger bomb: the H-bomb – Now, Americans afraid of nuclear war ...
... The Hydrogen Bomb – 1953: Soviets test bigger bomb: the H-bomb – Now, Americans afraid of nuclear war ...
Cold War at Home
... Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for spying for the Soviet Union, and the construction of nuclear weapons by the Soviets using technical secrets obtained through spying, increased domestic fears of communism. ...
... Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for spying for the Soviet Union, and the construction of nuclear weapons by the Soviets using technical secrets obtained through spying, increased domestic fears of communism. ...
Name Date ______ Hour ______ Chapter 18 Study Guide KEY
... c. The Soviets had already sent military aid to South Korea d. The Soviets had wanted to remain neutral at the time 5. When an armistice was signed ending the Korean War, a. North and South Korea were still divided along the 38th parallel b. A communist government was established in South Koreas c. ...
... c. The Soviets had already sent military aid to South Korea d. The Soviets had wanted to remain neutral at the time 5. When an armistice was signed ending the Korean War, a. North and South Korea were still divided along the 38th parallel b. A communist government was established in South Koreas c. ...
The Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
... first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan just four days after the conference. This brought the war in the Far East to an end. A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later and the Japanese soon surrendered. ...
... first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan just four days after the conference. This brought the war in the Far East to an end. A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later and the Japanese soon surrendered. ...
EFFECTS OF WWII
... Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel. Back row from left to right: Karl Döwnitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl. ...
... Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel. Back row from left to right: Karl Döwnitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl. ...
Cold War
... a. A military alliance of Western European powers and the United States agreed that an attack on one would be an attack on all Warsaw Pact (1955) a. A military alliance of Eastern European states and the Soviet Union created to rival NATO and to strengthen the Soviets control over Eastern Europe Sov ...
... a. A military alliance of Western European powers and the United States agreed that an attack on one would be an attack on all Warsaw Pact (1955) a. A military alliance of Eastern European states and the Soviet Union created to rival NATO and to strengthen the Soviets control over Eastern Europe Sov ...
The Consequenes of War for Canada and the World
... However- from WWII we now had a weapon that had potential to destroy human race Robert Oppenheimer Director of Lab that built ...
... However- from WWII we now had a weapon that had potential to destroy human race Robert Oppenheimer Director of Lab that built ...
Eisenhower - enoksenushistory
... The policy of threatening to use nuclear weapons if a Communist state tried to seize territory by force Eisenhower was able to cut military spending from $50 billion to $34 billion Increased the amount of nuclear bombs owned by the US ...
... The policy of threatening to use nuclear weapons if a Communist state tried to seize territory by force Eisenhower was able to cut military spending from $50 billion to $34 billion Increased the amount of nuclear bombs owned by the US ...
“Into Whose Hands?” The Anderson Independent
... Citation: “Into Whose Hands?” The Anderson Independent (Anderson, South Carolina). 13 August 1945: A4. Newspapers on Microfilm. Published Materials Division, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Caption: In the days that followed the dropping of the atom ...
... Citation: “Into Whose Hands?” The Anderson Independent (Anderson, South Carolina). 13 August 1945: A4. Newspapers on Microfilm. Published Materials Division, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Caption: In the days that followed the dropping of the atom ...
Two superpowers emerged from the ashes of the Second World War
... United States and the Soviet Union. Former allies, the two were now actively hostile, but they repeatedly stopped short of a full-‐out war. The prospect of a nuclear confrontation was too awful to c ...
... United States and the Soviet Union. Former allies, the two were now actively hostile, but they repeatedly stopped short of a full-‐out war. The prospect of a nuclear confrontation was too awful to c ...
Hums107-ColdwarII
... Soviet Union could not sustain its economic development levels by late 70s and 80s ...
... Soviet Union could not sustain its economic development levels by late 70s and 80s ...
Fail Safe
... toe to toe, ready to destroy each other, and the world, on a moments' notice. The countries rely upon the logic of Mutual Assured Destruction to prevent war. One day, due to a mechanical failure, a group of U.S. war planes, armed with hydrogen bombs, flies off toward the Soviet Union. It's target is ...
... toe to toe, ready to destroy each other, and the world, on a moments' notice. The countries rely upon the logic of Mutual Assured Destruction to prevent war. One day, due to a mechanical failure, a group of U.S. war planes, armed with hydrogen bombs, flies off toward the Soviet Union. It's target is ...
Livin` On the Edge: Brinkmanship and Continuing
... the spread of communism by promising to use all of its force including nuclear weapons against any aggressor nation. B. President Truman decided to develop the hydrogen bomb which was 67 more times powerful then the A-Bomb. ...
... the spread of communism by promising to use all of its force including nuclear weapons against any aggressor nation. B. President Truman decided to develop the hydrogen bomb which was 67 more times powerful then the A-Bomb. ...
Soviet atomic bomb project
The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb (Russian: Создание советской атомной бомбы) was a top secret research and development program begun during World War II, in the wake of the Soviet Union's discovery of the American, British, and Canadian nuclear project. This scientific research was directed by Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, while the military logistics and intelligence efforts were undertaken and managed by NKVD people's commissar Lavrentiy Beria. The Soviet Union benefited from highly successful espionage efforts on the part of the GRU of the Soviet General Staff, PGU NKGB SSSR/ MGB SSSR. During World War II, the program was started by Joseph Stalin who received a letter from physicist Georgy Flyorov urging him to start the research, as Flyorov had long suspected that many of the Allied powers were already secretly working on a weapon after the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939. However, because of the bloody and intensified war with Nazi Germany, large scale efforts were prevented. The Soviets accelerated the program after the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviet atomic project was charged with gathering intelligence on the German nuclear energy project as well as the American nuclear efforts. After the war, the Soviet Union expanded its research facilities, military reactors, and employed many scientists.Greatly aided by its successful Soviet Alsos and the atomic spy ring, the Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, RDS-1, codename First Lightning, on 29 August 1949, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR. With the success of this test, the Soviet Union became the second nation after the United States to detonate a nuclear device.