Eisenhower and the Cold War

How did the United States react to the following 7 events, and why?

1. The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in 1949.
Well this was years ahead of when the US predicted that the Soviets would be able to successfully create an atomic bomb so naturally there was a huge increase in public fear o the soviet union. This was the beginning of the second Red Scare. Because the US knew that the soviet union had been given information about the american atomic bomb via american spies.

2. In 1951, the Iranian prime minister placed the oil industry in Iran under the Iranian government’s control.
First Brittain decided that it would no longer buy Iranian oil. This caused the Iranian economy to falter, the US feared that this might cause Iran to look to the soviets for help so the CIA went over and secretly gave a lot of money to a group that was willing to over throw the Iranian government. This worked. A new government was installed in Iran and the oil field were given back to western powers.

3. The Guatemalan head of government gave American-owned land in Guatemala to peasants.
The CIA trained an army to fight but the Guatemalan army refused to defend their presidents decision. The Guatemalan president resigned and the military leader became dictator.

4. In 1956, Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt and occupied the Suez Canal.
Fighting broke out between France, Britain, Israel and Egypt. The UN stepped in and stopped the fighting and allowed the Egyptian control of the Suez Canal

5. Soviet tanks invaded Hungary and fired on protesters in 1956.
America did nothing to defend the Hungarian protesters or even repremand the soviets for killing 30,000 Hungarians. The Truman Doctrine of containment did not refer to countries that were already under the control of the soviets. America highly over estimated the power of the USSR and was very reluctant to engage it in a direct battle or conflict because many americans feared that the soviets were powerful enough to win.

6. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.
The US was embarassed that the soviets had done better than them in their space program so the US began to spend huge amounts of money to support a space proam that would rival that of the soviets. This was the beginning of the Space Race

7. In 1960, the Soviet Union brought down an American U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers.
The US was worried because they knew that the Russians knew of the existence of U-2 and that many of its flights were being tracked by the soviets and that they had been fired upon several times but none of these missiles actually hit their target.