11.2 - Alliances, Competition, and Nuclear Weapons

Alliances and Client States

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- Formed 1949
- Provide a collective defense against USSR
Warsaw Pact
- USSR & Satellite states
Sino-Soviet Split
- 1956-1966
- Chinese and Soviets stop being as close of allies
- In 1969 there were skirmishes along the border
Nikita Khrushchev
- Denounced the cult of Stalin
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
- Nations that did not want to be part of the Eastern or Western blocs
- Stop imperialism
- Oppose Alliances
- Egypt, India, Yugoslavia, Ghana, Indonesia
Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Leader of Egypt during the 1950s
Jawaharlal Nehru
- Leader of India during the 1950s
Josip Broz Tito
- Leader of Yugoslavia
Daniel Ortega
- Nicaraguan leader
Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
- Leader of the Phillipenes
- Authoritarian
- Capitalist
- Supported by US
Park Chung Hee (Pak Chŏng-hŭi)
- Leader of South Korea
- Authoritarian
- Capitalist
- Supported by US
Augusto Pinochet
- Leader of Chile
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Shah of Iran

Nuclear Weapons

Thermonuclear weapon (H-Bomb)
- Developed using fusion
- A lot more powerful
Nuclear Triad
- Delivery systems
- Increase the likelihood of successful delivery
- Most scary are ICBMs
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)
- Nowhere on Earth was out of reach
Stanislaw Petrov (1983)
- Believed a computer error had occurred when a system indicated that a US missile was heading towards the USSR
- May have saved the world
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (1968)
- Prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
- Disarm existing nuclear powers

Cuban Missile Crisis/Space Race