The Cold War: From Crisis to Détente

1949-1975

The Hydrogen Bomb	Khrushchev & Kennedy

Key Terms

1) Korean War

2) Nikita Khrushchev

3) “Peaceful Co-Existence”

4) Cuban Missile Crisis

5) Helskinki Accords

6) “Duck and Cover”

7) Military Industrial Complex

8) McCarthy and “The Paranoid Style”

• Why did the superpowers move from constant crisis toward peaceful coexistence and détente?
  
  
• What was the nature of Cold War culture in the United States?

I. From Crisis to Coexistence to Détente: The Cold War Abroad

· The Communist Victory in China (1949): Who Lost China?

· The Cold War Gets Hot: The Korean War, 1950-1953 (Kim il Sung and Kim il Jung)

· Dulles’s Strategy: “Rollback” and “Massive Retaliation”

· Stalin Dies (1953), Nikita Khrushchev and “Peaceful Coexistence”

· The Geneva Conferences (1954, 1955, 1958)

· Kennedy, Khrushchev, The Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962) and M.A.D.

§ Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb. (1964)

· The “Red Phone,” Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963), ABM Treaty and SALT I (1972)

· Nixon, Brezhnev, and the High Point of Détente

· The Helsinki Accords (1975)

II. Living the Cold War in the United States

• Atomic Fears and Realities: “Duck and Cover” and Hydrogen Bombs

• Government Power and the “Military Industrial Complex”

• The Anti-Communist Consensus in America

• Enemies Among Us: The Second Red Scare, McCarthyism, and the “Paranoid Style”
  “How To Spot a Communist”
  “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1956)
  Red Nightmare” (1962):
  Glenn Beck’s “Oligarhy”
  
  

• Colbert Report, "The 1952 Helsinki Games - The Reindeer Roars"