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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose
Peaceful Coexistence
- Krushchev brought this idea up
- USSR wanted to compete with USA peacefully
- peaceful competition in the space race
- 1959 Sino-Soviet Split
- More aggressive actions begin to be taken under the cover of this idea:
- Pressure to remove troops from Berlin, 1959
- Soviet influence in the Middle East
- Cuban Missile Crisis
The Space Race: Sputnik, ICBMs
- In 1957 Soviets first Earth-orbiting satellite named Sputnik
- The size of a basketball and only made beeps
- People feared that atomic weapons would soon be delivered without airplanes
- USSR upper hand and began to demand concessions
ICBMs and Delivery Systems
- ICBM - Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
- MIRVs - Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles
- Nuclear submarines
- M.A.D. - Mutually Assured Destruction
- Pre-emptive Strike
- SAC - Strategic Air Command planes flying 24 hours a day
Summary
Krushchev brought this idea up to compete peacefully. They sent Sputnik and they were ahead of the game.