Space Race
•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
•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 concessions
•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
•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 concessions
•(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
The Space Race was a massive part of evolution. You could show off to the world how much of a super power you were if you got there first, which the Russians did. Then the next step was to make it to the moon which apparently the USA did but that is questionable by some people.