Cold War Checkpoint 1 Review

an alliance of Western European and North American countries whose goal is to promote democratic ideals

• Comminism

• NATO

• Capitalism

• Warsaw Pact

competition between the US and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace technology

• Space Race

• Arms Race

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations whose goal was to spread communism

• Capitalism

• NATO

• Communism

• Warsaw Pact

economic system where the state (government) owns and controls all business

• NATO

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Warsaw Pact

competition between the Soviet Union and the US to build more/bigger nuclear weapons

• Communism

• Space Race

• NATO

• Arms Race

idea that if one country uses nuclear weapons the other country will use nuclear weapons and both countries would be destroyed

• Arms Race

• Mutually Assured Destruction
  (M.A.D.)

• Communism

• NATO

economic system where businesses are owned and controlled by private citizens

• Communism

• NATO

• Capitalism

• Warsaw Pact

Who won the Space Race?

• Soviet Union, because they put the first satellite into space

• Soviet Union, because they were the first to send animals to space

• United States, because they were the first to land people on the moon

• United States, because they were the first to send a chimp into space.

Why were the Soviet Union and the US competing with each other? What were they trying to prove?

• They wanted to prove that space travel was possible

• They were friends that wanted to help push each other through competition

• They were allies that wanted to prove they could rule the world

• The Soviet Union wanted to prove that communism was better and the US wanted to prove that capitalism was better.