April 25-29

[6Mikala]

Monday:

Brinkmanship--1950's-1960's:

• We didn't want to totally get into war

Massive Retaliation/Mutual Deterrence/Mutual Assured Destruction:

• Massive Retaliation---someone launches bombs on us, we will fight back
  • that brings out Mutual Deterrence
    • and that brings out Mutual Assured Destruction

Mutual Defense 

• We have nuclear weapons to defend people from our place
• we don't actually use them 

NATO:

• in 1949 the western nations formed the north Atlantic treaty organization co-ordinate their defense against Russia
• NATO was a defensive alliance
• This was the first peacetime alliance in US History
• It consisted of
  • america, Canada, Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, and Italy
    • still around today and has expanded

Warsaw Pact---1955-1991

NATO today:

Russia is not in it today

CIA v KGB:

• Central Intelligence Agency---1947-Present
• Komitet Grosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti-------KGB
  • Committee for state security
  • 1954-1991

Stalin Dies---1953

Nikita Khrushchev-1953-1964

Peaceful Co-existence-after 1953

• after Stalin dies, the people realize that we don't need to go to war
• we can live peacefully 

De-Stainization-after 1953

• they realized they should kill all their people
• they tore down statues of Stalin
• they imprisoned people 

Detente--1970's:

• easy of tensions----detente

Mikhail Gorbachev Comes to Power in USSR--1985

• he was the last leader of the soviet union

Perestroika and Glasnost--1985:

• Perestroika-Restructuring of the soviet union economy and political system
  • more democracy 
  • free elections
• Glasnost-More openness of the soviet government and for it's people
  • free speech and press

Tuesday:

continuing the cold war power point

Manhattan Project----the atomic bomb

USSR's First Atomic Test---1949

Nuclear Powers of the World:

• 1st 5: US, Soviet  union, China, Great Britain, and France
• North Korea, China,  Pakistan
  • Iran developing
  • Israel??we know they have some, but Israel hasn't come out and said they have any

How Many Nuclear Missiles would it take to blow up the earth:

• 3.6 million is the smallest bomb to bomb the earth
• 600,000 for US
• 15,000 is the largest bomb to bomb the earth 

Nuclear Power Treaties/Organizations

• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty---1963
• ----underground nuclear testing
• Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty---1968
• SALT I Treaty--1972
• SALT was to reduce the amount of war heads/nuclear weapons 

Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty--1970

• Prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology
• promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy
• further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament

Anti-Ballistic Missile--1972-US/USSR:

• Limited weapons that would speak out and destroy nuclear weapons once launched
• in the 1980's, President Ronald Reagan announces the strategic defense initiative(SDI)
• Us withdraws in the 2002 under George W. Bush 
• Withdraw due to missile defense system
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The Ballistic Missile Defense System:

• Missile Defense Agency
• program is designed to counter any nuclear missile attack on the US or allies

Wednesday:

Thursday:

work day

Friday:

work doy