1. 1950s
Cold War Effects

2. Game Rules DON’T SHOW ANYONE YOUR IDENTITY Fewer dots than nondots
Goal:
Nondots—form the largest group of nondots
If you have dot member you lose
Dots—win if you are the ONLY dot in a group

3. Prompt #6
What was it like for you participating in this game? Explain how this relates to the Cold War.

4. Cold War Effects

5. The McCarthy Era Joseph McCarthy  senator looking for an issue
McCarthyism — smear tactics to accuse people of communism

6. The McCarthy Era Accused gov’t officials  lost jobs
Attacks Sec. of State George Marshall
Questioned his integrity because he didn’t stop communism in China

7. McCarthy’s Fall—Accused Army
Army accused McCarthy of special treatment for his aide (who had been drafted)
Televised  loses most supporters (e.g., Senate)

8. Eisenhower Doctrine
Will fight and help any countries in the Middle East requesting aid against a communist attack
Ex: Israel

9. The Arms Race Policies of the Arms Race:
Deterrence
Brinksmanship
Soviets have hydrogen bomb (1953)
March 1954, U.S. tested hydrogen bomb in Pacific
More than 750 times as great as bomb on Nagasaki
Fisherman get radiation burns 90 miles away

10. Space Race Soviets U.S. falls behind
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)
Launch Sputnik (first satellite)
U.S. falls behind

11. U-2 Incident (1960) U.S. has a spy plane over USSR
USSR shoots down with guided missile
U.S. increases spending

12. 1960s
Cold War with Kennedy

13. Fidel Castro

14. Bay of Pigs (April 1961) -Explain what caused this event to take place
-Explain the plan using map

15. Results of Bay of Pigs
~1500 exiled Cubans—90 died, rest prisoners (later ransomed by private U.S. groups)
Castro became wary of the U.S.
Embarrassed Kennedy administration

16. Khrushchev vs. Kennedy Vienna Summit (June 1961)
Berlin Wall (August 1961)

24. Cold War Museum Project
Introduction

27. Decision Time
Cuban Missile Crisis

28. Step One

29. Step Two

30. Step Three

31. Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962)
Khrushchev sends emissary with a deal for JFK:
U.S. ends blockade and stays out of Cuba; needs to remove missiles in Turkey  in return USSR will remove nukes from Cuba
Kennedy agrees—but not in public; WWIII averted
One positive—Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963—no above ground tests

32. Prompt #7
In 4-5 sentences, evaluate Kennedy’s decisions regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Consider each step of the crisis (discovery, magnitude, and blockade)

33. Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962)
U-2 plane revealed Soviet weapons in Cuba (90 miles from FL)—threat to U.S.
Many difficult scenarios—WWIII on the line
Knocking out missiles—too risky
Blockade “quarantine” instead
Soviet ships face to face with quarantine—turned around