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War in Vietnam (1955 – 1979) – North: Soviet Union x South: America
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Africa: Angola
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Israel: Israel supported by: Soviet Union x Arabic countries supported by: America
there was no fighting directly between the two sides because they were fighting:
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who is better at sport
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who has better weapons: Nuclear Arms Race (invention of hydrogen bomb)
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who has better spy agency: U-2 Spy Incident (American U-2 spy plane was shot down)
America was afraid of having been dropped an atomic bomb on by the Soviet Union
the USA won the Space Competition with the Soviet Union
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1957 – Soviet Union sent into Space the world’s 1st earth satellite: Sputnik (Americans afraid it carries a H-bomb)
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1961 – Gagarin – a Soviet cosmonaut who was the 1st person who travelled into Space
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1969 – Neil Armstrong – an American astronaut who set foot on the Moon (1st person ever)
war of propaganda, the media were important
radio – radio waves could deeply and in a better way break into different territory (USA: Radio Liberty)
THE 1950’s
very tense (napjatý) period although America had a nuclear supremacy until 1952
the Americans were afraid that the Soviet Union would invade the US and occupy them
the Americans were afraid of having broken out of another WW
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politician Josef McCarthy
he started the real hysteria and made a bad reputation of the USA for justice and fair play
he appeared at the US congress with a little note and claimed that he had had a proof of 200 names who lived
in the USA and spied for the Soviet Union
no one ever saw that paper, he tried to be famous and visible on the TV
then became a committee for un-American (leftist, communist) activists – he was a president, had power to
investigate the life and political activities of suspicious people