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Pd 9 Cold War 25-26
Period 9's Cold War Project Flashcards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The 183 pound basketball sized satellite the soviet union made | Sputnik |
| Achievement | a thing done successfully, typically by effort, courage, or skill |
| Satellites | an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication |
| Exploration | the action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it |
| Orbiting | to fly or move in a circle |
| Checkpoint charlie | symbolized the ideological divide between Western capitalism and Soviet communism |
| Pickpockets | people that walk around stealing stuff from people pockets |
| Postwar | existing or built after a war |
| Paradox | Something very absurd and/or harmful |
| Annihilation | Destruction ruins everything |
| Deterrence | Discouraging people from their fears because of certain consequences |
| Existential threats | A danger to the risk of existence |
| Critical Reflections | A process of somebody’s belief |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile; the technology used to launch satellites |
| EVA | (extravehicular activity) Activities conducted outside the spacecraft, such as moonwalking |
| Saturn V | The rocket authorized by congress and used to launch Apollo 11 |
| Tranquility | Referring to the “Sea of Tranquility,” the landing site |
| Space Race | The 20th century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for dominance for spaceflight |
| Nuclear Submarine | An underwater vessel used for travel through the water and is powered using nuclear energy usually equipped with missiles |
| Environmental monitoring, and scientific research | watching and researching earthquakes, tectonic activity, and tremors, also tsunamis using the nuclear submarines |
| Polaris missile system | The U |
| Manhattan Project | A top secret US project, hoping to archive the first nuclear weapons to be used, also teamed up with Canada and the UK |
| SSBN | Was designed to carried out armed nuclear ballistic missiles |
| Capitalism | a system where the economy has some restraints, with social services and private ownership |
| free market | System where prices are decided by open competition between private businesses of said product, good, or service |
| Socialism | Spreading wealth evenly amongst the people |
| Communism | A system where a usually authoritarian government controls the factors with assigned jobs and no |
| COMECON | Acronym for the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance |
| Domino Theory | A anti-comunest theory that was in the western states saying that it will spread to other countries |
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