The Arms Race

1. Read Source 12. What methods do you think Dulles had in mind to 'liberate captive peoples' without a war?
I would say that he was going to do things like have "mini wars" like the Korea war where the U.S doesnt specifictly attack communism, the US would instead back anit communist peoples. Anouther thing they could do was have wars in technololgy like which superpower could have the most atomic weapons, who possesed the most deadly one, who could get a man onto the moon/into space.
2. Look at Source 13. Would you agree that the Communist world was encircled? Explain your answer.
Yes i agree that the USSR was surrounded by the allied powers that were trying to contain communism. The USSR was surrounded by SEATO, CENTO, and NATO. Because all of these packs were made by anit-communist countries the USSR had to make the warsaw pact to counter all of the other anti communist countries.
3. Carefully examine the verticle timeline on page 343. Then look back at Source 12. Do you think the development of nuclear weapons was what Dulles might have had in mind? I believe that Dulles was talking about beating the soviets in having the best waepons stockpiled to show that they had more power and that the USSR was almost always behind on discovering new things
4. Look at Source 16. What is the Soviet cartoon saying about the U-2 plane?
The Soviet Union was saying that the U-2 planes were used by the US to spy on them. The cartoon was used to gain intelligance on the USSR. While the US used hi-tech to spy the USSR was fine with using human people to gain intelligance on the US.
5. Read the Factfile on page 344. Explain why the USSR was so angry about the US spy flights.
The USSR had everyright to be upset with the US spy flights over their territory. When Truman was president the 2 countries made an agreement that there would be no flights over each others countries to insure that there were no atomic bombs dropped without warning. But the US sent in U-2 spy planes anyways. Unlike spys these planes could gather much more information because of all the hi-tech. The USSR should have been angry because Eisnhower broke the agreement that was starting to help the relations of the 2 superpowers.
6. How would the USA justify this violation of Soviet territory?
The USA could justify this violation of USSR territory by saying that they were looking after the US citizens best intrestes making sure that there wasn't going to be any atomic bombs dropped on them when they were sleeping. The USA could also say that flying these planes was the equilevent to having spys sent into the USSR to gather info, and they could accuse the USSR of sending spys over (which they did to get Powers out of his 10 year sentence)
7. If the USSR had had U-2 planes, do you think it would have used them? Why?
I believe that if the USSR had the U-2 planes they would use them but I think that if the USA had told them that it was a violation they would have stopped and relied on the spys again to avoid another war.
8. Look at Source 17. Why do you think the USA had missiles based in Europe?
I believe that the USA had missles based in europe becasue it would be easier and quicker to drop them on the USSR if there was an emergency. If the missels were kept in the USA they would take them more time to get to the USSR which depending on the events could cost a lot of people their lives.
9. Define the term 'nuclear deterrent' in not more than 20 words.
Nuclear Deterrent- a countrys nuclear weapons arsenal, for a countrys nuclear deterrent to be successful, the country has to preserve its second strike capability.

"Deterrence Theroy- holds that the nuclear weapons are intended to deter other states from attacking with their nuclear weapons, through the promise of retaliation and mutually assured destruction(MAD) It can also bbe assigned as a response to an attack by conventional forces"-Wikipiedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_deterrent)