Unit I – Foreign Policy Crisis
Two Nations Living on Edge…
Date:
The Cold War continues…with new leaders
U.S. Leaders:
U.S.S.R. Leaders:
Eisenhower’s ‘New Look’ Foreign Policy
Brinkmanship
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• Proposed by John Foster Dulles
Goal:
• Based on the threat of massive retaliation
The U.S. is willing to…
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This policy downsized the
_______________ & _______________
But provided money to…
EX: Mutually Assured
Destruction (MAD)
Space Race
Arms Race:
• U.S. had an A-bomb after WWII
• 1949:
Soviets launch Sputnik, first artificial satellite …
• 1952:
• 1953: Soviets explode H-Bomb
Americans fear attacks by U.S.S.R.
 Americans fear they are falling behind
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Soviets and establish...
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 Americans fell inferior and vulnerable
FYI: As the nation became more dependent on nuclear arms… what executive bureaucracy was used by Eisenhower?
What did the
do?
1.
2.