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-first man on the moon
-The First Man in orbit
-The Soviets won the first round when they launched Sputnik 1 in 1957
-they made NASA
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-An arms race, in its original usage, is a competition between two or more states to have the best armed forces
-while tensions after the war between the United States, Britain and Japan resulted in the first major arms-limitation treaty at the Washington Conference.
-The buildup of arms was also a characteristic of the Cold War
-An arms race denotes a rapid, competitive increase in the quantity or quality of instruments of military or naval power by rival states in peacetime

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-Fidel Castro became
leader of Cuba in 1959
-communist
and ally to the USSR
-He began to allow
nukes to be placed in
Cuba
-USA drew a line, told USSR they couldn’t cross it with a boat with missiles on it
-No crossing of the line, no rules broken
-world watched at a USSR ship approached the blockade
If it passes line, act of war… we bomb USSR

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-The Vietnamese Nationalists (Communist) gained independence in 1957, and split
-Without certain victory, the US left and the communists took over in 1975
-Nearby Laos and Cambodia became communist as well
-The N. Vietnamese and Vietcong
were successful in fighting the US
using Guerilla warfare

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-When N. Korea invaded South to unite the country, the US sent $ and
troops to help stop the Communists
-The Soviets and Chinese sent money and weapons to aid the Northern
Communists
-This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf.
-North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.

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-in response, the us created the national aeronautics and space administration(NASA)

--the ussr was also the first to send a man into space:Yuri Gagarin

--the ussr was also the first to send a man into space:Yuri Gagarin

--both the arms and space races continued until the cold war

S end in 1989.

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-The Communists took over in 1949, renaming it the Peoples Republic of

China and was led by Mao Zedong

--WWII strengthened the Communist party in China
--Many people believe that certain ideas of communism are good
-Gave them food