"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
- John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy
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
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ICBMs and Delivery Systems
- (ICBM) Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
- MIRV's (Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles)
- Nuclear submarines
- M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) (could kill each other in a matter of seconds- neither side wins)
- Pre-emptive Strike
- SAC (Strategic Air Command) planes flying 24 hours a day
- MIRV's (Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles)
- Nuclear submarines
- M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) (could kill each other in a matter of seconds- neither side wins)
- Pre-emptive Strike
- SAC (Strategic Air Command) planes flying 24 hours a day
The Space Race and Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM’s)
- 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
Summary
After many years of competition between the US and Russia, the two nations finally came to an agreement of peaceful coexistence. Although the two nations did not directly fight each other, it resulted in many examples of indirect competition like the space race.