Week 4/25 - 4/29

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Monday - Cold war 

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-Stabilization-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.

The Ballistic Missile Defense System:

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

Wednesday - 

Thursday - worked on project 

Friday - worked on Project