Development of the HBomb

1
Development of the H-Bomb

• November, 1952 U.S. develops the Hydrogen Bomb
• 150 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb
• Thermonuclear Device
• Fuses hydrogen atoms instead of splitting them
• But
• Soviets explode their own H-bomb in August, 1953

2
Brinkmanship

• John Foster Dulles Ikes Secretary of State
  favored the idea of being willing to go to the
  edge, or brink, of war to avoid one
• Caused a great dependence on nuclear weapons ?
  ARMS RACE

3
Covert Actions (CIA)

• Battle back communism on the sly
• 1953 Iran
• U.S. forced the Shah (monarch of Iran) to replace
  the Prime Minister of Iran with a more
  western-friendly leader by not buying Iranian oil
• 1954 Guatemala
• U.S. replaced their leader with a dictator
  because they feared communist leanings because of
  land redistribution (of U.S. owned land)

4
1955

• Warsaw Pact is established between the Soviet
  Union and its satellite nations in response to
  West Germany joining NATO
• Geneva Summit
• Meeting between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
• Hope for easing of tensions between the two
• open skies proposal is shot down by Soviet
  leaders

5
Egypt and Hungary

• Egypt started cavorting with the Soviet Union so
  the U.S. and Britain withdrew their offer of aid
  in dam building
• Egypts leader, Nasser, got mad and took over the
  Suez Canal (ran by Britain and France)
• So Britain, France and Israel invaded Egypt and
  the Soviet Union threatened to enter on the side
  of Egypt
• UN intervened and imposed a cease-fire
• Hungary wanted out of the Warsaw Pact, but the
  Soviets killed 30,000 of them to keep them in!

6
Eisenhower Doctrine

• U.S. would defend any Middle Eastern nation
  against communist aggression

7
Arms Race goes skyward

• U.S.S.R. develops true ICBMs
• Oct. 4, 1957 Soviets launch the first satellite
  Sputnik I
• The U.S. succeeded in the same on Jan. 31, 1958

8
U-2 Incident

• We tried open skies with Soviets
• We continued spy flights
• By 1960 we decided to stop the flights to
  encourage better relations with the Soviets
• May 1, 1960 was the last flight
• The plane is shot down and the pilot is captured
• No peace summit between Khrushchev and Ike