Cold War - Section IV

What year did the Soviet Union explode their first atomic bomb?

Planes used to make secret high altitude flights over Soviet Union territory

How did the Soviet Union respond to Imre Nagy forming a new government in Hungary that allowed free elections?

The Eisenhower administration relied heavily on spies from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - What did they do?

The CIA was successful in returning the Shah to power who turned back the Iranian oil fields to western company control

Who was the Iranaian prime Minister who nationalized Iran's oil fields in 1951?

The world's first artificial satellite

1960 - A Soviet U-2 plane was shot down by the U.S.

1953 - The CIA gave several million dollars to anti-Mossadegh supporters. Who did the U.S. support instead?

Which central American country did the CIA take secret actions in? (trained an army to invade)

Why did the United States not help Hungary agaisnt the Soviet attack?

The Soviet Union won the space race

The United States entered a deadly race with the Soviet Union to see which country could produce the first

1955 - During the Summit in Geneva - what proposal did Eisenhower put forth?

"Open Skies" - The United States and the Soviet Union would allow flights over each other's territory

1955 - The Soviet Union formed a military alliance called

Brinksmanship

The Warsaw Pact

After Joseph Stalin's death - who came to power in the Soviet Union?

The Soviet Union accepted the Open Skies proposal

In 1952 - the Soviet Union won the arms race when they exploded the first H (hydrogen) - Bomb

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles proposed that the United States could prevent the spread of communism by