Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Cold War
- Spying
- Both sides spied on eachother
- Increased rivalry
- This was to find out any military
- Spy planes were often used
- They could fly high and take photographs
- could avoid being shot down
- Example was the American U2 spy plane
- Loans and aid
- Compete to provide loans and aids to less developed states
- Win their support in the cold war
- Space Races
- Compete for success in the space races
- Compete to launch the first satellite
- First man in space
- First man on the moon
- Arms race
- Competition in conventional as well as nuclear weapons
- Both wanted more weapons
- Both wanted newer technology
- Each side had enough nuclear weapons to destroy eachother
- 'Mutually assured destruction' or MAD theory
- Deterrent against war
- Propaganda
- Used to crete worst possible image of eachother
- Ensure the national public supports the govenment
- The Soviet Union used success in sports
- The Olympics
- Illustrated the superiority of the communist system