Warm-Up:

Read aloud as a group about the The Cold War and a Divided World on pages 479-480 of the textbook. Add the following terms to your notes:

NATO Warsaw Pact brinkmanship U-2 Incident

Rival Alliances

NATO-alliance between the United States, Canada and ten Western European nations

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)

Warsaw Pact-alliance between the Soviet Union and its communist Eastern European allies

NATO

Warsaw Pact

Nuclear Threat

November 1952

U.S. tested H-Bomb

August 1953Soviets detonate thermonuclear weapon

First H Bomb Test (2:19)

Tsar Bomb (3:11)

Brinkmanship-

willingness of the superpowers to go to the brink, or edge, of nuclear war to force their rival to back down

Nikita Krushchev

John Kennedy

Cuban Missile Crisis

Nuclear Stockpiling in Cold War

# of nuclear

warheads

U-2 Incident• Open sky policy proposed by

President Eisenhower

• Rejected by the Soviet Union

• United States CIA – Sends secret spy plane over Soviet territory.

• Soviets shot the U-2 plane down and captured the pilot (imprisoned for 19 months).

• U-2 Incident brought mistrust between the superpowers to a new height!

Cold War in the Skies

Sputnik 1- first satellite to be launched into space

Apollo 1- pre-launch fire killed three astronauts

Soviet UnionOctober 1957

United StatesFebruary 1967

NASA

Write a ½-page response to the following:

What is brinkmanship?

What did this policy risk?

Do you agree or disagree with this policy?

Why?