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