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Objective 7.8- Brinkmanship & The Arms Race

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1949 would prove to be a crucial year in the Cold War what states has Atomic weapons and Joseph Stalin desperately wants one in order to win the Cold War the Soviet Union must become an atomic power to match the United States just going orders spies into the US military successfully steal the plans to build an atomic bomb and so in 1949 the Soviet Union becomes an atomic test detonates its own atomic bomb this is the beginning of the arms race  what's the Soviets had the bomb the nuke your age have you gone do United States and the Soviet Union were the world's two nuclear superpowers to once again gain an advantage over the Soviet Union United States adults and test it needs its first Hydrogen Bomb in 1952 the hydrogen bomb is 1 million tons of TNT imagine the bomb that was dropped are Russian my Japan at the end of World War II hydrogen bomb is 67 times the power of the bomb that destroyed and annihilated the city of Orosi Amman 1845  however by 1953 the Soviets test at date their own age throughout the arms race the United States and the Soviet Union stockpile nuclear arms in order the top each other  drop the where's the four Decades of the Cold War these two superpowers would stockpile thousands of nuclear weapons the negligence and irresponsibility of stockpiling destructive weapon is lost on the world's two superpowers in their quest for power and influence around the globe and it places the world in a very dangerous situation the mass of stockpiling of weapons brought about the policy of brinkmanship was a cold war policy that threatened all-out nuclear war in order to deter the Soviets what does a defensive policy where if we threaten to use our weapons the Soviets wouldn't want to use theirs there were three parts of brinkmanship who's created by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles call the United States and the Soviet Union cut their land and sea forces  in exchange they built up there air forces in order to use it to drop bombs on each other and forces would become irrelevant with nuclear weapons therefore creating a necessity to build a stronger Air Force under this policy any nuclear attack would be returning kind meaning if the Soviet Union dropped an atomic bomb on the United States United States off another atomic bomb on the Soviet Union this would continue until the entire world was destroyed  what showing force with atomic weapons Eisenhower turn to the CIA covert Ops the Central Intelligence Agency overthrow unfriendly governments the first country targeted was Iran  the CIA funded the overthrow of the Muslim prime minister so a pro us shot could another country in which the CIA was influential was Guatemala the CIA trained to Rebel Army to bring down the pro-communist Guatemalan government the success of using Guatemalan Rebels the CIA will use this tactic again and trying to overthrow Fidel Castro from Cuba the goal of CIA covert operations the 1950s install Pro US government and preventing unstable nations from going communist good 1953 Joseph Stalin dies and the United States and the Soviet enter a period of time where their relationship improved and tensions in the Cold War comped however a series of international crises would reignite the tensions in the cold to even a higher level the first of these crises was the formation of the Warsaw Pact when West Germany rearmed itself in join NATO the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955 the Warsaw Pact was a defensive Alliance of its own made-up between the Soviet Union and seven satellite nations in Eastern Europe these nations Germany Poland Czechoslovakia Hungary Romania and Bulgaria the Warsaw Pact threatened war with any Western democracy native attack any of the countries that belong to the Warsaw Pact with Europe divided between NATO countries and the west and Warsaw Pact countries in the East the battle lines were drawn cross Europe any little bit spark of war between democracy and communism into a potential nuclear conflict II crisis was the hunger play revolution in 1956 the people of Hungary revolt against the Soviet Union and try to establish a democratic government United States initially prom the Hungarian revolutionaries Aid in their fight against the Soviets however if the United States directly involve itself in the conflict it risk all-out nuclear war with the Soviet Union and so despite their promises sent no way to the revolutionaries the Hungarian Revolt is put down by Soviet troops and Hungary remains part of the Communist Bloc the other crisis that increase tensions was the Suez Crisis in 1956 Egypt backed out of the Soviets cut off all access to the Suez Canal in order to cut off oil Western democracies in retaliation to this England France and Israel invade Egypt to regain control of the Suez and restore the oil flow the Suez Crisis ended when the UN intervened to negotiate peace the brief war ended with the Western withdrawal and he jection control of the Suez Eisenhower was to by the Soviet influence in the Middle East and he wanted to stop it if the Soviets can spread to the Middle East so control oil and important trade routes so in 1957 the United State adopts the Eisenhower Doctrine went to the Middle East this would dictate us involvement in the region for the next 60 years in the and United States in 1953 the new Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev changes the game entirely in addition to the military rivalry between the two superpowers cruise ship also and approve Soviet superiority culturally and so he began in economic and scientific competition with the United States with cruise ships push for scientific Dominus the Soviets change the game in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik Sputnik was the first satellite launched into space by mankind and the Soviets have done it by play the race to space the United States need to catch up with the fear that they were falling behind in the competition with the Soviet Union United States launched its own satellite into space in 1958 so why don't we reached heightened tension in 1960 with the U-2 incident  R Us high altitude spy plane call the YouTube was shot down over the Soviet Union and it's pilot Francis Gary Powers was captured Powers put on trial the Soviet Union and was convicted of Espionage on behalf of the United States the United States openly admit play was spying on the Soviet Union because quite frankly the Soviet Union was also spying on the United States at the same time but the United States refused to apologize which broke down the Goshi ation is between the two Teresa brought tangents to a fever pitch  buy 1960 white D Eisenhower was finishing his second term as president end of the United States over his presidency defense spending had Rose 40% in order to keep up with the Soviets before leaving office Ike warned at the influence what he called the industrial-military complex in his farewell address to the nation that in the race to beat the Soviets the United States sacrificing too much we must never let the weight of combination endanger our liberties or Democratic processes we should take nothing for granted  only an alert and knowledgeable citizen can compel the proper making of the huge industrial and Military Machinery of Defense with our peaceful methods and goals well that picture at the end Liberty May Prosper together in his view the government was lying on the power of the military and massive defense spending way too much he feared that the stock play little weapons and the race to outspend the Soviets in military defense would endanger the rights of citizens the United States would become so obsessed to build a pass military that the priorities individual citizen their well-being their prosperity would be sacrificed it was a candid moment when President Eisenhower put aside his political affiliations and gave advice what you thought was best for his country despite his remarkable warning the stage was set for an escalation in the 1960s that would bring the world to the brink of annihilation and the it is ever been to All Out International nuclear war

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