Slide 1 1960s This was the most dangerous decade. Slide 2 A summit was planned for May 1960 to discuss Berlin and nuclear weapons. President Eisenhower wanted an 'open…

Slide 1 EISENHOWER’S FOREIGN POLICY Keys: avoiding ground wars low-level CIA actions--with plausible deniability maintain friendly rulers within traditional American spheres,…

TOPIC #6: The Building of the Berlin Wall - 1961 REVIEW / KD: 1. Page 407. Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQsTzGkbiY "Walled In!" Germany's inner…

Cold War Part 3: The Nuclear Club Grows Bombs, bombs, and more bombs. Sputnik. Space Race Eisenhower Doctrine U2 Crisis Tsar Bomb Fears this will lead to a build up and then…

Cold War Germany Cold War Germany By Jessica Flynn 1950-89 West Germany: Pre-wall Joined NATO (1955) A place of economic growth Wirtschaftswunder (1955) Joined the European…

Unit 13 - The Origins of the Cold War 1945-1965 * I. Causes of the CW A. The Iron Curtain Winston Churchill gave the Iron Curtain speech in 1946 Map of the Iron Curtain *…

TOPIC #6: The Building of the Berlin Wall - 1961 REVIEW / KD: 1. Page 407. Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQsTzGkbiY "Walled In!" Germany's inner…

Space Race and U-2 Incident Introduction Beginning in the late 1950âs, the US and Soviets competed for influence in the skies. Once the superpowers had ICBMâs to deliver…

THE U2 CRISIS and THE SPACE RACE Space Race â Arms Race! The race beginsâ¦. Both countries began developing their weapons so as to be able to âoutgunâ their opponents.…

What were the main causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962? What were the main causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962? Learning objective â to understand what caused…