1. 10-2: The Early Cold War

2. Thematic Learning Objectives
WOR 2.0 Analyze the reasons for and results of U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military initiatives in North America and overseas.
WXT 2.0 Explain how patterns of exchange, markets, and private enterprise have developed, and analyze ways that governments have responded to economic issues.

3. Key Concept
The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and working to maintain a position of global leadership, with far- reaching domestic and international consequences.

4. Eisenhower and the cold war
Massive Retaliation (or brinksmanship)
modified containment to include liberation
If attacked, response would be massive
Nuclear deterrent instead of conventional use of armed forces
Hydrogen bombs tested (U.S. 1952, USSR, 1953)
Vietnam and Domino Theory—SEATO

5. Eisenhower and the Cold War
Relations with the USSR
Death of Stalin (1953)
Replaced by Nikita Khrushchev
“Peaceful coexistence”
Polish and Hungarian uprisings quickly crushed, souring American- Soviet relations
Sputnik (1957)
Soviet satellite
U.S. fear, creation of NASA
U-2 Incident (1960)
U.S. spy plane shot down
Khrushchev cancels joint summit

6. Eisenhower and the Cold War
The Middle East
Suez Crisis
Eisenhower Doctrine
OPEC and Oil
Eisenhower’s Legacy
Warned of dangers of “military-industrial complex”

7. Kennedy and the Cold War
Alliance for Progress
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall