Eisenhower FP
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- Created on: 16-12-21 09:57
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- The USA and the Cold War 1952-1960
- Superpower rivalry and conflict with the USSR
- The Space Race
- Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) made it morph into other spheres
- Moon, Mars, or Space itself would 'go red'
- 4 October 1957: Sputnik in space
- 3 November 1958: Sputnik 2, carrying Laika
- US Vanguard blew up. Televised. Huge embarrassment.
- Ike's administration forced to rely on Werner von Braun
- *1958: Ike creates NASA
- The Arms Race
- Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945) the superpowers had been locked in an arms race
- The rocket technology also aided the Space Race
- By 1953: both powers had developed hydrogen bombs 7x Hiroshima
- By 1955: US nuclear bombers ready to fly at 15 minutes' notice
- 1957: US - 5543 nuclear weapons, USSR 650
- USSR a concern: Sputnik (1957) and development of ICBMs
- *1953: 'Atoms for Peace' speech by Ike. It went nowhere.
- 'New Look' (1958)
- 'more bang for the buck'
- John Foster Dulles
- nuclear weapons > conventional warfare
- 'cost-effective response to communist aggression'
- The Space Race
- Superpower rivalry and conflict with the USSR
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