The Cold War: Eisenhower

Ch 13.4

Friday, May 11, 2012

• Understand the effects of the “new look” policy, Massive Retaliation, the U-2 incident and Sputnik on the Cold War.

Eisenhower’s New Look

• Eisenhower wanted “more bang for the buck” in the military. He emphasized a smaller Army and a larger Nuclear arsenal.

Think About it…

• Why does no one win a Nuclear War?

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

• Fear of massive retaliation stopped both sides from using their Nuclear weapons.

U-2 incident

• The United States sent the U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union.

• The Soviets shot down the U-2 and captured pilot Francis Gary Powers.

Cold War: Space Race Quotes

• From the Washington Post (Jan. 28th 1958)• The Air Force’s top space expert predicted yesterday

the moon will be a military rocket base for either Russia or the US within 10 years. Brig. Gen. Homer A. Boushey, deputy director of Air Force research and Development said the moon will provide a “base of unequaled advantage” for raining “sure and massive destruction” on earth.

• The General said “he fully supports the view that ‘He who controls the moon, controls the Earth.’”-Brig. Gen. Homer A. Boushey

The Sputnik Crisis

• The Soviets launched Sputnik, the world’s first satellite in Space.

CIA

• The gov’t created the Central Intelligence Agency for containment in developing nations.

Military Industrial Complex

• Eisenhower warned the American people as he left office to be careful of the influence of the defense industry on military spending.

NASA’s part of the Federal Budget

NASA

• Congress responded by creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to compete with the Soviet Union.