12.4 Flashcards
Q: What foreign policy strategy did Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, adopt during his presidency?
A: Brinkmanship.
Q. What was the next weapon that spurred the arms race?
A. The Fusion Bomb: Fusion of atoms makes a more power weapon
Q. Which government officials increased nuclear weapons?
A. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State.
Q. How did Eisenhour implement Brinkmanship?
A. Increasing Air Force, reducing Army, and threatening the use of tactics and weapons.
Q. Was the cold war different than other wars?
A. A political, foreign policy war. No troop movements or wartime battles
Q. What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
A. No communism in the middle east
Q. What did Eisenhower do in Iran?
A. Overthrew Mossadegh for the Shah.
Q. Who took over in Iran after Mossadegh?
A. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, until the 1979 Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini.
Q. Who is Jacob Arbenz Guzman?
A. Guatemala President removed for giving peasants land
Q. Why did Eisenhour remove Jacob Guzman?
A. Fear that he was implementing Marxism ideas
Q. Who is Carlos Castillo Armes?
A. Rebel leader supported by Eisenhour
Q. What happened at the formation of NATO and West Germany?
A. The formation of the Warsaw Pact.
Q. What is the Geneva Summit?
A. Meeting between Khrushchev and Ike (Eisenhour)
Q. What did Egypt nationalize?
A. The Suez Canal
Q. What happened after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal?
A. Britian, France, and Israel threaten military intervention
Q. What did the Russian due after the Suez Canal?
A. Soviets threated the British and French, the U.S. threatens the Soviets
Q. When did the Soviets put down the Hungarian Revolution?
A. 1956: 30,000 Hungarian protestors killed
Q. Why did the US not get involved in the Hungarian Revolution?
A. Soviets kept Hungry in the Warsaw Pact: Did not want to start another war
Q. What did the Soviets launch in 1957?
A. Launch Sputnik into orbit: ICBM Capable
Q. When did the U.S. put satellites into orbit?
A. 1958
Q. Who started the U-2 spy plane program?
A. CIA
Q. Where was Francis Gary Powers shot down, and what did Eisenhour do?
A. 1300 miles into Soviet territory
Eisenhour lied, saying the pilot was on a weather survey and lost
Q. Why did the Soviets not tell the world that they knew U-2 planes were flying over Russia?
A. U-2 Thought to be superior technology, embarrassed that they cannot shoot down
Q. What happened to Francis Gary Powers?
A. He was tried for espionage, sentenced to ten years. Released after 17 months in an exchange.
Q. Why did Khrushchev halt all communication with the U.S. after the U-2 incident?
A. Khrushchev halted communication because the U-2 incident exposed the US spying on the USSR, undermining trust.
