1950s

McCarthyism

A period in the 1950s when people were accused of being communists without strong evidence. It created fear and damaged many lives.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

U.S. president from 1953–1961 who focused on stopping communism. He relied on nuclear strength to prevent war.

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

A group that investigated suspected communists in the U.S. It pressured people to reveal political beliefs.

Mohammad Mossadegh

Iran’s leader who nationalized oil in the 1950s. He was removed from power in a U.S.- and UK-backed coup.

De-Stalinization

In 1953 Stalin dies and Nicita Krusheve became the next USSR leader and he struggled agriculture shortage of consume goods.

Arms race

A compatition bettwen the US and USSR where they compare their technology as atomic bomb. Truemen decide to take Hydrogen bomb

Fusion Weapon - After The USSR’s first atomic test president Truman orders the development of Fussion Weapons “more powerfull“

Space race

Us and USSR make new space technology and make race who will be better

USSR

1st Satellite in space Sputnic

1st human in space Yuri Gagarine

US

1st human on the moon - Apollo 11

Suez Crisis

a major Cold War conflict triggered when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the British/French-owned Suez Canal Company

Causes

Arab socialism and nationalism

1956 - the canal is nationalized

Coourse: A coalition of Britain France and Israel try to retake the canal

An imminent nuclear war.

Berlin Crisis 1961

Tensions over Berlin led to the building of the Berlin Wall. It separated East and West Berlin.

Skilled workers professions and intellectuals go to the West through Berlin open sector

The wall Built in Augost 1961, 27 miles along East and West. They isolated people without saing.

Brinkmanship

strategy of pushing close to war to force the other side to give in. It was very risky.

MAD

Mutually assured destroction

Detterence

The scholarship and practice of how threats of using force by one party can convince another party

To the Brink

Brinkmanship - The act of moving close to the brink of nuclear war without going over

The domino Theory

If one communist country will fall other communistic country will fall.