How did the arms race affect the soviet economy

The arms race during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was something that was terrifying the whole world. Both countries were investing heavily in new military technology and it always seemed that they can enter into a war with each other and make a new world war that could have ended the whole humanity. The Soviet Union invested much more then the United States in weaponry when compared to their GDP. The Soviets had much smaller GDP then the United States though, and having their primary focus and expenses on military technology was slowly eating their economy. This resulted in the Soviet Union gradually coming to a point where it could not longer exist because of its bad financial politics and too much investment into weaponry, eventually leading to falling apart of the country and bankruptcy.

valentina tereshkova

soviet cosmonaut valentina tereshkova became the first woman to fly to space when she launched on the vostok 6 mission june 16, 1963. valentina tereshkova was the first woman to go into space. in 1963, she spent almost three days in space and orbited earth 48 times in her space capsule, vostok 6.jan 22, 2018