1. Mustang Monday, March 23 Take your seat Take out your notebook
Quietly begin Precious Time
Precious Time
Answer the EQ for FN: The Cold War Begins – short paragraph 6+ sentences.
Answer EQ for FN: The Korean War – 3-5 sentences.

2. Today’s Agenda Precious Time Brinkmanship – The Butter Battle Book
Homework:
Copy FN: Eisenhower and Brinkmanship
Vocabulary quiz tomorrow on Ch. 12 Sec. 1-3

3. The Butter Battle Book What is Brinkmanship?
Describe what is happening in the book.
What is the main conflict between the Yooks and the Zooks
How does this book exemplify the Cold War and the Concept of Brinkmanship?

4. Eisenhower and Brinkmanship
Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy
EQ : What methods did the US use in its global struggle against the Soviet Union?

5. Eisenhower and Brinkmanship
popular as Allied commander in Europe during WWII
defeated Adlai Stevenson twice in 1952 and 1956
Nixon became the Vice President
believed we should show strength by getting as close to war as possible without war
brinkmanship meant never having to go to war
promised to get us out of Korea
I Like Ike!!!

6. Brinkmanship Massive Retaliation (Dulles), 1954
the US would answer any attack with a larger nuclear response
basically, anyone dumb enough to attack us would be destroyed

7. Nikita Khrushchev Soviet Premier 1953-1964
succeeded Stalin who died in 1953
dealt with Eisenhower and Kennedy)
tried and failed to build up Soviet agriculture
tried to bring American corn to Russia
helped keep up the arms race
We will bury you!!

8. U-2 Incident, 1960 Ike said we do not spy (just the Soviets did)
a US spy plane was shot down over USSR
Gary Powers, pilot
Ike admitted it but refused to apologize
Americans sad to hear that we spied too

9. Hungarian Revolt, 1956 Eisenhower promised aid to any nation who asked
Hungary drove soviets out of Budapest and waited for aid
after a month, we had not helped them and soviet troops retook the city

10. Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957
promised economic and military aid to Middle East
helped establish Shah in Iran (overthrown in 1980s)
US sent troops to Lebanon in 1958
the US Belonged to CENTO from 1955 – 1979
Suez Canal Crisis, 1957

11. Military-Industrial Complex
in 1960, Eisenhower warned against the US relying too much on large defense contracts for the economy
claimed there was a link between arms makers and US military
Our military was becoming to big, and it could lead to economic down turn.