Ch. 17-1 Emerging Postwar Power Relationships

NATO & Marshall Plans united Western Europe and the U.S.

1st World- Anticommunist2nd World- Communist Nations3rd World- underdeveloped

countries- Asia & L. America

U.S. Provided

1) Loans 2) Outright Grants 3) Technical AssistancePoorer nations resented the

U.S. economic dominance

Dwight D. Eisenhower (IKE)

Won 1952 Presidential election b/c he was a “War Hero”

1953- Korean War truce Domino Theory- belief that when

one country fell to communism the others will fall

Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)

Brinksmanship- willingness to threaten the use of nuclear weapons and risk the possibility of war

Hydrogen Bomb- much more powerful than the A-Bomb

Ike attempted to share ideas for nuclear power but USSR rejected it

U-2 Incident

U-2 Spy plane shot down in the USSR

USSR accused the U.S. of spying

Khrushchev canceled peace summit

Aswan Dam and Suez Canal

Egypt with Soviet support took over the canal

GB & France- attacked EgyptU.S. pressure forced the British

and French to retreat

Anticommunist Uprisings

Hungary and Poland tried to resist Soviet control

USSR quickly crushed the uprising

Warsaw Pact- communist version of NATO

Eisenhower Doctrine

Ike said the U.S. would send help to any country in the M.E. that wanted to resist communism

U.S. gradually became the policemen of the world

Sputnik

1957- USSR launches 1st satellite into space (Sputnik)

U.S. begins to heavily invest in science and math

Space Race begins

Sputnik