Module 6 Vocabulary

1. a bomb whose violent explosive power is due to the sudden release of atomic energy resulting from the fusion of light nuclei(as of hydrogen atoms) at very high temperatures in pressure to form helium nuclei.
7. a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons.
8. a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capacities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceships.
9. He became the first American and the second man in space on May 5, 1961, when he piloted the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 490 kilometer) 15-minute suborbital flight.
14. an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.
15. a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
16. an American astronaut who was the second person to set foot on the Moon.
17. the first ever invented artificial satellite launched into orbit by the SoKazakhstanenrom Kazakhstanen on October 4th, 1957.

2. is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy that posts that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
3. a long, costly, and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
4. conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(North Korea) and the Republic of Korea(South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives.
5. is often thought of as an economic system in which private actors own and control property in a record with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society.
6. was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
10. Fortified concrete and wire barriers that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
11. a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first human to journey into outer space.
12. a type of government as well as an economic system (a way of creating and sharing wealth).
13. Research pilot, astronaut, and first man to set foot on the moon during the Apollo 11 Mission.