Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The US and the USSR were competing in this because they were trying to have the strongest kind of nuclear war, have more nuclear bombs than each other, they wanted to get to space first. The USSR was winning because its discoveries were more advanced than than the US. The cold war was fought with propaganda, economic war, diplomatic haggling and occasional military clashes between these two nations. The scenes that will remind me of the events in the Cold War were the US's rocket launching failures.