Development of the cold war til 1968 (Superpower rivalry: the arms race and the space race)

Question 1

What was the space race?`

Answer 1

Competition between USSR and US to be the first to reach further benchmarks in space exploration.

Question 2

Why was the space race important to each country?

Answer 2

• Prove who had better equipment but also essentially was to prove the country with the best ideologies.

Question 3

What did the space race also allow for each nation to do?

Answer 3

Arms race continued into the space race.

• Gave each nation an excuse to develop rocket and missile technology to supposedly aid space exploration, but also had military purpose.

Question 4

What was the Arms race and when did it begin?

Answer 4

Arms race was parallel development of nuclear and conventional weapons between USSR and USa. (1949)

Question 5

What did the Arms race bring about?

Answer 5

• A climate of Fear

“There are no longer problems of the spirit, only the question; ‘when will i be blown up?’” ~ william Falkner (1950, nobel prize winner)