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What policy did Ike pursue in Korea, ‘rollback’ or ‘containment’?
containment
How long did it take Ike to end the war in Korea?
6 months
Ike wanted to contain communist expansion by threatening the Chinese with what?
“massive nuclear retaliation”
When had covert CIA operations been useful? (before Iran)
whilst fighting against Hitler
What did the US want to protect in Iran?
US and British oil from Soviet meddling
Ike refused to send bombers/atomic bombs to help which country fight the communist North Vietnamese?
France
What did Nixon call Ike’s presidency style?
“Devious in the best sense of the word”
Who called Ike’s presidency a “hidden hand”?
Fred Greenstein
Name the two islands
Quemoy and Matsu
Who controlled these islands + from where?
nationalist Chinese (Chiang Kai-Shek) on Formosa (Taiwan)
What 2 things did Ike do to intimidate the Chinese?
Staged military maneuvers off the coast of China and tested nuclear weapons
What was China’s response to Ike’s threats of nuclear war?
They stopped shelling the islands within a few weeks
What is the name for these risky policies?
“brinkmanship”
What was the name of the operation where Ike showed his executive branch what they would do in the case of nuclear war?
Operation Alert
What issue of domestic policy would cast a shadow over Ike’s presidency?
Little Rock Nine (civil rights movement)
Who was the Secretary of State?
John Foster Dulles
Where and when did Ike visit K?
In the Geneva Summit 1955
What did the West call the Soviets?
“world-wide communist conspiracy”
What was Ike’s proposal to the Soviets called? (he wanted to allow each country to take aerial photographs of its military installations)
“Open Skies”
What was K’s response? “You are simply trying to look in our _____”
bedrooms
When did Ike send a U2 plane after the summit? and from where
the following July / from West Germany
Where was K when this U2 plane flew over Moscow?
At an Independence Day Party at the American Embassy
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Who launched the world’s first satellite?
The USSR
What was the term used to describe the difference between the US and USSR in terms of technology?
The missile gap
Who was Vice President at the time?
Richard Nixon
What meeting did Ike attend despite suffering a stroke?
NATO meeting in Paris
What else did the Soviets launch before the Americans?
Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
How many months after the Soviets did the US launch their first ICBM?
5 months after
Who accused Ike of spreading misinformation to the American people?
JFK
What did K do after his visit in the US? (reducing the arms race with the US)
He ordered cuts of more than 1 million men from the Soviet Army
Who was the head of the CIA?
Allen Dulles
At which meeting did relations between the US and USSR improve?
Camp David
Where did the first U2 spy plane fly to and when?
It went to Kazakhstan (Soviet satellite) on the 9th April
What did this plan fail to photograph? site in the
Arctic town of Plesetsk
Who was the pilot of the U2
Francis Gary Powers
The Soviets shot this plane down. What was this day known as?
May Day
At first, what did Ike say the U2 plane was?
A NASA weather plane which crashed in Turkey
Who did K blame for the espionage?
Pentagon militarists
What did K call Ike?
“a dirty capitalist thief”
What was the White House described as? (in relation to Ike)
“the tomb of the well-known soldier”
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