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1 West vs East USA vs USSR America vs Soviet Union

2 1945 US gets nuclear bomb .

3 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)
United States Luxemburg Netherlands Norway Portugal 1952: Greece & Turkey 1955: West Germany 1983: Spain Belgium Britain Canada Denmark France Iceland Italy

4 1949 USSR gets nuclear bomb

5 1952 US gets hydrogen bomb

6 1953 USSR gets hydrogen bomb

7 Warsaw Pact (1955) East Germany Hungary Poland Romania U. S. S. R
Warsaw Pact (1955) East Germany Hungary Poland Romania U. S. S. R. Albania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia

8 1957 USSR gets first ICBM

9 1957 USSR sends satellite into space.

10 1958 US sends satellite into space

11 1958 USSR sends dog into space.

12 1959 US develops ICBM

13 1959 US sends Monkey into space

14 1961 USSR First human sent into orbit

15 1962 First American in Space

16 1969 US lands on the moon

17 1970 USSR First probe to land on another planet (Venus)

18 1971 USSR starts building first space station

19 1972 SALT Treaties

20 1975

21 1976 First US spacecraft to land on another planet (Mars)

22 1981 US develops space shuttle

23 1988 Soviet Buran spaceship

24 Mutually Assured Destruction
The idea that since everyone acts in their own best interest—we need to guarantee that the other side will not survive an attack on the other, thus…. We will have peace since if one side ever starts a war they will be assured that everyone will be DESTROYED.

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