the space race
•In 1957 the Soviets launch the first Earth-orbiting satellite named Sputnik.
•About the size of a basketball and only made beeps
•People feared that atomic weapons would soon be delivered without airplanes
•This gave the USSR an upper hand and they began to demand concesssions
•About the size of a basketball and only made beeps
•People feared that atomic weapons would soon be delivered without airplanes
•This gave the USSR an upper hand and they began to demand concesssions
Icbm's and delivery systems
•(ICBM) Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
•MIRVs (Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles)
•Nuclear submarines
•M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)
•Pre-emptive Strike
•SAC (Strategic Air Command) planes flying 24 hours a day
•MIRVs (Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles)
•Nuclear submarines
•M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)
•Pre-emptive Strike
•SAC (Strategic Air Command) planes flying 24 hours a day
peaceful coexistence
•Idea brought forth by Krushchev
•Stated USSR wanted to peacefully compete with USA
•USSR encouraged in their peaceful competition with their success in the space race.
•1959 Sino-Soviet Split
•More aggressive actions begin to be taken under the cover of this idea:
•Pressure to remove troops from Berlin, 1959
•Soviet influence in the Middle East
•Cuban Missile Crisis
•Stated USSR wanted to peacefully compete with USA
•USSR encouraged in their peaceful competition with their success in the space race.
•1959 Sino-Soviet Split
•More aggressive actions begin to be taken under the cover of this idea:
•Pressure to remove troops from Berlin, 1959
•Soviet influence in the Middle East
•Cuban Missile Crisis
summery
between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (USA) for supremacy in space exploration. Between 1957 and 1975, theCold War rivalry between the two nations focused on attaining firsts in space exploration, which were seen as necessary for national security and symbolic of technological and ideological superiority.
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