Missile

extensive funding came in 1957, after the successful launch of the Soviet’s Sputnik 1 satellite. After the American public was shocked by what President Dwight D. Eisenhower described as the “Science gap”, the US government perceived an extreme need for missile defense programs such as SAGE, and further allocated funds to allow for…

Truman’s policy of containment was to work to stop the spread of communism any way they could. They used the Truman Doctrine (political), Marshall plan (Economic), NATO and other alliances (political). The goals of the Truman Doctrine were to contain and convert the communists to Western Democracies. The Marshal plan aided Western Europe to help rebuild after the war. It also worked to reject the appeal of communism After World War II, Berlin was controlled by the Soviets, US, Britain, and…

What Really Happened to Flight 800? When flying on a plane many might be scared for there life when soaring through the sky at such a high height, but with the chance of losing your life being only at one in a 11 million it is unlikely anything would happen (curiosity.com). Tragically this one in a 11 million chance happened to everyone on TWA Flight 800, with odds in their favor this became a national mystery for the cause of this intentional or unintentional mishap. The aircraft and the…

government of the day under Eisenhower was concerned about the cost of the missile and space program and as such were dragging their feet to invest in the space program. Its secure position as a leading military power had lulled it into a sense of laziness and the government leaders and the public viewed space exploration as frivolous ( Asaeng Pg 36). The involvement in the Korean war kept the US focus on military applications like missiles. The Soviets on the other hand had a clear focus on…

Stalin. The Soviets feared that America used to Western Europe as a base to attack the Soviet Union (Atkinson). The effects brought about by the Cold War were: the United States and the Soviet Union accumulated too many nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. the NATO Treaty Organization (North Atlantic military cooperation treaty signed by Washington in 1949) and the Warsaw Pact (between the Soviet Union and its European satellites, this treaty organized to Eastern Europe from the point of…

worked on the Trebuchet catapult, they made the design have the greatest affect possible. Later, another ancient war engine was created called the traction Trebuchet. Large men used their strength to pull down on the Trebuchet ropes to force the missile. “A Trebuchet could release up to 2000 stones in one day” (Alchin, 2015c). The Trebuchet was helpful in war because people had the advantage of launching more than one stone at a…

The Bomarc missile was a nuclear weapon used to replace the Avro Arrow after Diefenbaker had cancelled its project. In 1958, in association with NORAD, Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker agreed with the US to deploy 56 American Bomarc missiles along the Canadian – American Border in order to protect North America against any nuclear attacks by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Diefenbaker could not decide whether they should fit the missiles with nuclear warheads and they…

correctly. It also, because of U-2 reconnaissance flights, possessed an accurate picture of Soviet defense capabilities and limitations. Specifically, Eisenhower comprehended the lack of the arms race, the much touted “bomber gap”, and Kennedy’s “missile gap” (CNN “Sputnik”, Judge & Langdon 114). This understanding enabled Eisenhower to assume small amounts of risk with conventional forces without fear of Soviet retaliation, including intervention into Lebanon in 1958 and concurrence with…

began turning it into a one-party communist system. (History of Cuba) In 1962, the United States discovered that Cuba had Soviet missiles staged in Cuba. The United States promised a U.S Naval blockade if the missiles remained. The missiles were than withdrawn and the missile bases destroyed. The U.S and Soviets signed an agreement to end the time known as the Cuban Missile Crises. With the agreement, the U.S could not strike…

Vietnam, and the Cuban missile crisis. Regardless of these factors the war remained a Cold war. This is because the arms race created the most important stabilising factor which was mutually assured destruction. Both superpowers realised the devastating capability of Nuclear…