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West vs East USA vs USSR America vs Soviet Union

1945 US gets nuclear bomb .

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

1949 USSR gets nuclear bomb

1952 US gets hydrogen bomb

1953 USSR gets hydrogen bomb

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

1957 USSR gets first ICBM

1957 USSR sends satellite into space.

1958 US sends satellite into space

1958 USSR sends dog into space.

1959 US develops ICBM

1959 US sends Monkey into space

1961 USSR First human sent into orbit

1962 First American in Space

1969 US lands on the moon

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

1971 USSR starts building first space station

1972 SALT Treaties

1975

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

1981 US develops space shuttle

1988 Soviet Buran spaceship

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.