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cold war

TermDefinition
Sputnik Soviets go into space first
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration created in 1958
Yuri Gragarin First man into space
John Glenn First American to orbit
Apollo 11 Americans are first to the moon
Operation paperclip Nazi rocket scientists secretly go to the United States
MAD Mutually Assured Destruction
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) Pushes the Soviet Union to end the Cold War
1949 USSR tests A-bomb
Ronald Reagan Great communicator, most aggressive president since Kennedy
John Kennedy President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Fidel Castro Prime minister of Cuba; came into power 1959
Bay of Pigs a failed military invasion of Cuba, sponsored by the U.S. (CIA sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506)
Cuban Missile Crisis 13-day confrontation in October 192 Between US and USSR over missiles in Cuba
Quarantine/Blockade Kennedy wanted to issue a blockade, but that would be a declaration of war
Hasso Herschel Saved 1,000 people to get to freedom in West Berlin by tunnel and car
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg Famous couple who were spies for Alexander Feklisov, a soviet spy. Were executed by electric chair in 1953
Miracle on Ice When the American hockey team beat the Soviet Union on February 22, 1980. David vs. Goliath
1972 Olympics Basketball match Americans vs. USSR. USA lost in the last seconds, lost for the first time since 1936.
Olympic Boycotts USA decides not to go to Moscow in 1980 USSR decides not to go to LA in 1984
Project Azorian Ship built by USA funded by Howard Hughes to retrieve the Soviet sub called K-129 that sunk.
Charlie Wilson Congressman from Texas who kept getting money to give nuclear weapons to Gannies to defend themselves against the Soviets
Warner von braun and Arthur Rudolph Two most famous guys from operation paperclip
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