Peaceful Coexistence
- Idea brought forth by Krushchev
- Stated USSR waned 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 being to be taken under the cover of this idea:
- Pressure to remove troops from Berlin, 1959
The Space Race: Sputnik, ICBMs
- In 1957 the Soviets launch the first Earth-orbiting satellite named Sputnik
- People feared that atomic weapons would soon be delivered without airplanes
- This gave the USSR an upper hand and they began to demand concessions
ICBMs and Delivery Systems
- ICBM Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
- MIRVs Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles
- Nuclear submarines
- M.A.D Mutually Assured Destructions
- Pre-emptive Strike
- SAC Strategic Air Command- planes flying 24 hours a day
Summary
The space race became the main propganda tool to advertise which country was winning in the cold war. Russia was winning with almost everything until the states became the first people to put a man on the moon.
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