Notes

3/7/2016
Do Now: Order
the events,
then set up
your notes

Containment Theory

Key Terms:

totalitarian
subjugate

Announcements
Thursday @ 5: ACT Reading Section
practice

Atomic Standoff
Soviets test first atom bomb, 1949
Hydrogen bomb
US: 1952
USSR: 1953

Eisenhower (Republican, elected 1952) &

Sec. of State, John Foster Dulles
massive retaliation or nuclear deterrence

Containment in Europe
Soviets blockade Berlin (1948), US
responds by airlifting supplies to West
Berlin
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
US-led alliance in Western Europe, 1949
USSR responds with Warsaw Pact, 1955

Containment in Asia

After WWII, Korea divided on 38th parallel

1949, Communists in China win civil war
1950, N. Korea invades South
UN authorizes use of military force
MacArthur leads successful invasion
China joins war, leads to stalemate
1953, Korea permanently divided by DMZ

Containment Around the World

Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh (Communist) leads fight for
Vietnamese independence against France
After French defeat (1954), Vietnam divided N
& S US supports Southern dictator, Ngo
Dinh Diem

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Spy agency, created 1947
Overthrew elected leaders in Iran, Guatemala,
Laos