Warm-Up:

Read aloud as a group about the The Cold War and a Divided World on pages 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 WarsawPact

Nuclear Threat November 1952 U.S. tested H-Bomb August 1953 Soviets detonate thermonuclear weapon First H Bomb TestFirst H Bomb Test (2:19) Tsar BombTsar 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 Union October 1957 United States February 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?