President Kennedy (USA) and Premier Khrushchev (USSR) face each other over Berlin. What is the message of the cartoon? Does it favour either side?
Kennedy and Khrushchev trying to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis. What is the message of this cartoon? How does it compare with the message of the previous cartoon?
Importance of the Cold War ●● It was a competition between the capitalist and democratic West and the communist dictatorships of the East
●● It brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, especially in the Cuban Missile Crisis (p. 351)
●● It forced other countries to take sides for either the USA or the USSR ●● It caused local crises such as the building of the Berlin Wall (p. 349) ●● It resulted in spending enormous sums of money on military equipment
The Space Race The Space Race between the USA and the USSR was part of the
Cold War. It began in the 1950s when the USSR sent Sputnik, the first satellite, into space in 1957. This shocked America because it showed that Communist technology was superior to the American or capitalist technology. It also shocked America because it showed that the USSR had more powerful rockets capable of landing nuclear bombs on America. The USSR jumped further ahead in 1961 when Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit the Earth. Soon, the Americans were trying to catch up. President Kennedy made a commitment that year that America would
