Two Nations Live on the Edge

Chapter 18.4

Brinkmanship Rules US Policy

• Race for the hydrogen bomb• Arms race• The policy of brinkmanship –Eisenhower• Secretary of State-John Foster Dulles-

anti communist• US increases Air Force• US decreases Army and Navy

The Cold War Spreads Around the World

• CIA• Covert actions in the Middle East and

Latin America• Shah in Iran• Guatemala

• The Warsaw Pact-Eastern European military bloc• Summit in Geneva• “Open skies”

• The Suez War• Egypt plays US/USSR• Egypt nationalizes canal• Israel blocked• Israel sends troops

• The Eisenhower Doctrine-US would defend against any attack on the Middle East by the communists• The Hungarian uprising 1956• Soviets crush rebellion• No help from the US

• Egyptian president Gamal Abder Nasser's 1956 nationalization of the Suez Canal, crippled the ability of Great Britain and France to trade internationally. As a result, the two countries allied with Israel to attack Egypt.

The Cold War Takes to the Skies

• 1953 Stalin dies• Nikita Khrushchev takes over• The Space Race-1957 Sputnik-Soviet

satellite• A U-2 is shot down-spy plane to take

pictures

• Soviets shoot down U-2 • Renewed confrontation• U-2 incident