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KOREA
What policy did Ike pursue in Korea, ‘rollback’ or ‘containment’?
containment
What did Ike say the “cost of one modern heavy bomber” was?
“The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities”
What did Ike say the cost of one modern destroyer war?
“The cost of one modern destroyer is five fully equipped hospitals”
What did Ike famously say about the danger of an Arms Race?
“under the cloud of threatening war is it humanity hanging from a cross of iron”
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 was the ceasefire in Korea?
27th July 1953
IRAN
When had covert CIA operations been useful? (before Iran)
whilst fighting against Hitler
Who did the CIA overthrow?
Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh
Who did the CIA put into power instead?
The Shah, Mohammed Raza
When was this coup?
19 August 1953
What did the US want to protect in Iran?
US and British oil from Soviet meddling
IKE
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
TAIWAN
When did communist China start to shell two small islands?
late 1954
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
U2
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
SPUTNIK/MISSILE GAP
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 was the first US satellite called? (first failed attempt)
Vanguard TV-3
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
WASHINGTON
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
What present did K give Ike?
A miniature Sputnik
U2
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
When did the next U2 plane take off?
1st May
Who was the pilot?
Francis Gary Powers
Where did he take off from?
Peshawar, Pakistan
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
PARIS CONFERENCE
Who did K blame for the espionage?
Pentagon militarists
Who was Ike’s Press Secretary?
Haggerty
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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