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Ch. 17-1 Emerging Postwar Power Relationships
NATO & Marshall Plans united Western Europe and the U.S.
1st World- Anticommunist2nd World- Communist Nations3rd World- underdeveloped
countries- Asia & L. America
U.S. Provided
1) Loans 2) Outright Grants 3) Technical AssistancePoorer nations resented the
U.S. economic dominance
Dwight D. Eisenhower (IKE)
Won 1952 Presidential election b/c he was a “War Hero”
1953- Korean War truce Domino Theory- belief that when
one country fell to communism the others will fall
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
Brinksmanship- willingness to threaten the use of nuclear weapons and risk the possibility of war
Hydrogen Bomb- much more powerful than the A-Bomb
Ike attempted to share ideas for nuclear power but USSR rejected it
U-2 Incident
U-2 Spy plane shot down in the USSR
USSR accused the U.S. of spying
Khrushchev canceled peace summit
Aswan Dam and Suez Canal
Egypt with Soviet support took over the canal
GB & France- attacked EgyptU.S. pressure forced the British
and French to retreat
Anticommunist Uprisings
Hungary and Poland tried to resist Soviet control
USSR quickly crushed the uprising
Warsaw Pact- communist version of NATO
Eisenhower Doctrine
Ike said the U.S. would send help to any country in the M.E. that wanted to resist communism
U.S. gradually became the policemen of the world
Sputnik
1957- USSR launches 1st satellite into space (Sputnik)
U.S. begins to heavily invest in science and math
Space Race begins
Sputnik