Cold War: Two Nations Live on the Edge

Today we talked about ratcheting tension between the two great superpowers, and it's effects.

Topics discussed

- Brinkmanship

- Warsaw Pact

- Eisenhower Doctrine

- Nikita Khrushchev

- Sputnik

- U-2 Incident

Link to notes

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/427440/American%20Studies/2nd%20Semester/3.%20The%20Cold%20War/4.%20Two%20Nations%20Live%20on%20the%20Edge/Cold%20War%20-%20Two%20Nations%20Live%20on%20the%20Edge.pdf