Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Eisenhower & The Cold War

Read Chapter 26, section 4, Two Nations Live on Edge, (pages 828-833).

How did the United States react to the following 7 events, and why?

The United States is always competing with the Soviet Union. For example, the Sputnik and H-Bomb. As soon as the U.S. heard about Sputnik being launched, they immediately had to figure out how to make a satellite for themselves. But this failed the first time they made one. The U.S. made the H-bomb first, but weren't expecting Soviet Union to finish theirs not too long after. The United States were competing because they didn't want the Soviets to be ahead of them in technology or anything really.

1. The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in 1949.

2. In 1951, the Iranian prime minister placed the oil industry in Iran under the Iranian government’s control.

3. The Guatemalan head of government gave American-owned land in Guatemala to peasants.

4. In 1956, Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt and occupied the Suez Canal.

5. Soviet tanks invaded Hungary and fired on protesters in 1956.

6. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.

7. In 1960, the Soviet Union brought down an American U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers.

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