Chapter 26-4 terms and names

• H-bomb = the hydrogen bomb-- a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower= president of the U.S. at this time
• John Foster Dulles= his secretary of state, staunchy, anti-Communist
• brinkmanship= the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retailiation for any aggression
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)= a U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments.
• Warsaw Pact= a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satelittes.
• Eisenhower Doctrine= a U.S. commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957.
• Nikita Krushchev= Became the new Soviet Union leader after Stalin died. Believed that Communism would take over the world some day, just like Stalin believed, but he thought it could triumph peacefully.
• Francis Gary Powers= U-2 Pilot.
• U-2 incident= the downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960.