the arms race

1. Read Source 12. What methods do you think Dulles had in mind to 'liberate captive peoples' without a war?
Dulles wanted to surround the communists and without war get counries all around them to be against communism.
2. Look at Source 13. Would you agree that the Communist world was encircled? Explain your answer.
Yes i do because all the countries around the USSR had alliances that were anti-communist.
3. Carefully examine the verticle timeline on page 343. Then look back at Source 12. Do you think the development of nuclear weapons was what Dulles might have had in mind?
Yes because if war came to be hen it would have been very costly of American lives and dangerous becuase the Soviets and Americans werre in an arms race.
4. Look at Source 16. What is the Soviet cartoon saying about the U-2 plane?
The cartoon says that it was obvious that the US was spying because they didn't do it secretly.
5. Read the Factfile on page 344. Explain why the USSR was so angry about the US spy flights.
The USSR were so angry because Truman did not apologise for spying or say that there wouldn't be any more fights but he had confessed to them.
6. How would the USA justify this violation of Soviet territory?
That the USSr had their own spies on US land and that they did it for protection.
7. If the USSR had had U-2 planes, do you think it would have used them? Why?
Yes because the US didn't have th emisiles to shoot them down and the USSR spied too.
8. Look at Source 17. Why do you think the USA had missiles based in Europe?
Because it would take less time for a short range misile to hit USSR since europe is closer to the USSR than the US is.
9. Define the term 'nuclear deterrent' in not more than 20 words.
Nuclear dererrent is that since a country had nuclear wepons they wont use them because they know the other will retaliate and MAD.