12.4

Question 1

Q: What foreign policy strategy did Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, adopt during his presidency?

Answer 1

A: Brinkmanship.

Question 2

Q. What was the next weapon that spurred the arms race?

Answer 2

A. The Fusion Bomb: Fusion of atoms makes a more power weapon

Question 3

Q. Which government officials increased nuclear weapons?

Answer 3

A. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State.

Question 4

Q. How did Eisenhour implement Brinkmanship?

Answer 4

A. Increasing Air Force, reducing Army, and threatening the use of tactics and weapons.

Question 5

Q. Was the cold war different than other wars?

Answer 5

A. A political, foreign policy war. No troop movements or wartime battles

Question 6

Q. What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?

Answer 6

A. No communism in the middle east

Question 7

Q. What did Eisenhower do in Iran?

Answer 7

A. Overthrew Mossadegh for the Shah.

Question 8

Q. Who took over in Iran after Mossadegh?

Answer 8

A. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, until the 1979 Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini.

Question 9

Q. Who is Jacob Arbenz Guzman?

Answer 9

A. Guatemala President removed for giving peasants land

Question 10

Q. Why did Eisenhour remove Jacob Guzman?

Answer 10

A. Fear that he was implementing Marxism ideas

Question 11

Q. Who is Carlos Castillo Armes?

Answer 11

A. Rebel leader supported by Eisenhour

Question 12

Q. What happened at the formation of NATO and West Germany?

Answer 12

A. The formation of the Warsaw Pact.

Question 13

Q. What is the Geneva Summit?

Answer 13

A. Meeting between Khrushchev and Ike (Eisenhour)

Question 14

Q. What did Egypt nationalize?

Answer 14

A. The Suez Canal

Question 15

Q. What happened after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal?

Answer 15

A. Britian, France, and Israel threaten military intervention

Question 16

Q. What did the Russian due after the Suez Canal?

Answer 16

A. Soviets threated the British and French, the U.S. threatens the Soviets

Question 17

Q. When did the Soviets put down the Hungarian Revolution?

Answer 17

A. 1956: 30,000 Hungarian protestors killed

Question 18

Q. Why did the US not get involved in the Hungarian Revolution?

Answer 18

A. Soviets kept Hungry in the Warsaw Pact: Did not want to start another war

Question 19

Q. What did the Soviets launch in 1957?

Answer 19

A. Launch Sputnik into orbit: ICBM Capable

Question 20

Q. When did the U.S. put satellites into orbit?

Answer 20

A. 1958

Question 21

Q. Who started the U-2 spy plane program?

Answer 21

A. CIA

Question 22

Q. Where was Francis Gary Powers shot down, and what did Eisenhour do?

Answer 22

A. 1300 miles into Soviet territory
Eisenhour lied, saying the pilot was on a weather survey and lost

Question 23

Q. Why did the Soviets not tell the world that they knew U-2 planes were flying over Russia?

Answer 23

A. U-2 Thought to be superior technology, embarrassed that they cannot shoot down

Question 24

Q. What happened to Francis Gary Powers?

Answer 24

A. He was tried for espionage, sentenced to ten years. Released after 17 months in an exchange.

Question 25

Q. Why did Khrushchev halt all communication with the U.S. after the U-2 incident?

Answer 25

A. Khrushchev halted communication because the U-2 incident exposed the US spying on the USSR, undermining trust.