Transcript Two Nations Live on the Edge - Burlington Township School

Focus
How do you feel when you are
threatened?
Complete the web from yesterday.
Two Nations Live on the Edge
Brinkmanship=U.S. Policy
Nuclear arms race begins during Truman’s Presidency
H-Bomb(hydrogen)-atoms are fused rather than split=1
million tons of TNT or 67 times the power of the bomb
dropped on Hiroshima
U.S. must build a more powerful weapon after the
Soviets explode A-bomb
Nov. 1, 1952-successful explosions of the h-bomb=10.4
million tons of TNT
Soviets explode H-bomb less than 1 year later
Brinkmanship
New President=Dwight D. Eisenhower
Secretary of state=John Foster Dulles(anticommunist)
Threats of massive retaliation would force the
U.S. on the edge, or brink, of war=brinkmanship
Beefed up Air-Force/produce massive amounts
of nuclear weapons
Air-raids practiced/fallout shelters for 30 years
The cold War Spreads
CIA-Eisenhower begins relying heavily on them
Activity:
-Complete the chart………
The Cold War Takes to the Skies
What is Sputnik and why were Americans fearful
of it?
Who is Francis Gary Powers?
What was the U-2 incident and what was the
result of it?
Fill in the Results of the Following:
Event
The U.S. is suspicious of
Soviet Union
U.S. and Soviet leader hold
summit meeting
U.S. and G.B. withdraw offer
to build dam in Egypt
Hungarians ask for more
freedoms
U.S. worries about Soviet
Aggression
Result
The Federal Emergency Management Agency published information on how to build
a fallout shelter around 1957. This attractive interior of a basement family fallout
shelter included a 14-day shelter food supply that may be stored indefinitely, a
battery-operated radio, auxiliary light sources, a two-week supply of water, and first
aid, sanitary, and other miscellaneous supplies and equipment.