1. Spread of The cold War

2. The world would now live with the threat of nuclear war.
NUCLEAR AGE
The world would now live with the threat of nuclear war.
Arms race between Soviet Union and U.S. who could build the most nuclear weapons.
U.S. would use nuclear weapons as a “deterrent”
Peace through strength……
“nuclear diplomacy”
atomic bomb

3. The Arms Race: A “Missile Gap?”
The Soviet Union exploded its first A-bomb in 1949.
Now there were two nuclear superpowers!

5. Brinkmanship
Belief that only going to the brink of war would protect the U.S. from going to war with the Soviet Union.
U.S. would threaten mass retaliation with Soviet Union in order to try to get them to back off.

6. Suez Crisis
Egypt’s president Gamal Abdel Nasser tried to construct a dam on the Nile River.
U.S. and Britain offered to pay for project but Nasser began communicating with Soviet Union and Recognized the People’s Republic of China.
Eisenhower administration withdrew its offer.

7. Suez Crisis
In Response, Nasser Nationalized the Suez Canal making it under government control.
Before it was managed by the British and French and protected with British armed forces.
This threatened the flow of Middle Eastern oil to Europe.

8. Suez Crisis
Britain and France teamed up with Israel to try to get the land back without consulting the U.S.
President Eisenhower did not like this and refused to support them.
As a result of lack of U.S. support, Britain, France, and Israel were forced to withdraw its troops.

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10. Eisenhower Doctrine
Stated that the U.S. would use force to help any Middle Eastern nation threatened by communism.

11. CIA Central Intelligence Agency- 1947
Intelligence gathering organization.
1953 helped install a new government in Iran and in 1954 same thing in Guatemala
Both helped to place anticommunist leaders in power and also created long term resentment toward U.S.

12. The Race for Space

13. Stayed in orbit 92 days, until Jan. 4, 1958
1957 Russians launch SPUTNIK I
Facts on Sputnik
Aluminum sphere, 23 inches in diameter weighing 184 pounds with four steel antennae emitting radio signals.
Launched Oct. 4, 1957
Stayed in orbit 92 days, until Jan. 4, 1958

14. Effects on the United States
1957 Russians launch SPUTNIK I
Effects on the United States
Americans fear a Soviet attack with missile technology
Americans resolved to regain technological superiority over the Soviet Union
In July 1958, President Eisenhower created NASA or National Space and Aeronautics Agency
> National Defense Education Act

15. Effects of Sputnik on United States
Atomic Anxieties:
“Duck-and-Cover Generation”
Atomic Testing:
Between July 16, 1945 and Sept. 23, 1992, the United States conducted 1,054 official nuclear tests, most of them at the Nevada Test Site.
Americans began building underground bomb shelters and cities had underground fallout shelters.

17. Cold War Technology 1948- Microwave 1946- Computer 1948- Hang Glider
1958- Nuclear Energy Plant
1960- Communications Satellite
1070s- Smoke Detector
1980s- Global Positioning System