Unit 2: Revolutions and The Cold War

Section 2.1: Technology, Space & a New Global Culture

While you wait for
class to begin, see
how many words
you can find!
 Objective: Students will be able to identify the
importance of the Space Race and how technology
continued to advance after World War II.

CA Standard: 10.9.1. Compare the economic and military power shifts caused
by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear weapons,
Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic recoveries of
Germany and Japan.

CONTENT READING

Read Part 3 Chapter 3

Looking Up & Away: Scientific Advances in the
Postwar Years
Pg. 238-243
Circle Your Favorite Technology
 Media Technology: Television

 After WWII people in Western Europe were

buying televisions
 Many networks funded by national
governments such as the BBC: British
Broadcasting Corporation
 In the 1950s Television became mainstream
 The T.V. broadened society’s perspective of
what was “out there”
 By 1955, a majority of American households had
a television
 Wavering Trust

As people get news and information more from the internet and social media, trust
in that news has fallen. Trust in social media news has fallen compared to back
when people primarily got news from Newspapers and the major television
networks.

Why do you think people

don’t trust the news from
social media?
 Alan Turing & Hedy Lamarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btqro3544p8
3:30
https://safeyoutube.net/w/GZJw
• British mathematician
LaMarr filed for frequency-hopping
designed early computing
technology in 1941 that became a
precursor to the secure wi-fi, GPS and machine to allow British
Bluetooth now used by billions of officers to crack code of the
people around the world.
German Enigma machine
during WWII
 Soviet Union launches Sputnik (Start of the
Space Race!)

October 4, 1957: Soviet Union launches first

artificial satellite into space: Sputnik

The Soviet Union was a direct

enemy of the United States. How
do you think Americans felt
seeing the Russians put the 1st
ever satellite into outer space?

USA vs. USSR – Who

will win?
 Soviet’s Science Scares Americans Into Action
The development of Atomic Weapons and
Rockets will spur what becomes known as
the Space Race

Space Race: The rapid development of

space technology in the U.S. and Soviet
Union.

What famous Space program is

created during this time period
in America?

Capitalism vs. Communism

American Response The Space Race was considered
important because it showed the world
which country had the best science,
• Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet technology, and economic system. –
Ducksters.com
leader, timed the launch of
the satellite to celebrate 40
years of Bolshevik
Revolution

• Americans upset: What does • President Eisenhower

it mean for our security? announces formation of
NASA; National Aeronautics
& Space Administration
1958.
 Man in Space & Moon

• Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first person in

space, flight last 1 hours and 48 mins

- Americans Neil Armstrong & Buzz

Aldrin were the 1st two people to walk on
the moon
- NASA also sent monkeys to space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T
YuXj5sq6A
3:23
https://safeyoutube.net/w/5ZJw
Let’s Match!
 • “I believe that this nation should commit
itself to achieving the goal, before this
decade is out, of landing a man on the

Kennedy’s
moon and returning him safely to earth.
No single space project in this period will
N
Promise be more impressive to mankind, or more
important for the long-range exploration
A
of space, and none will be so difficult or
expensive to accomplish.”
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Why did the U.S. feel the need to

compete with the Soviet Union in
regards to space advancement?
The
Journey to
the Moon
 German Scientists

 Many important German

scientists were recruited to
work on space programs in
U.S. and Soviet Union after
WWII
 Wemher von Braun: developed
rockets for Germany now a
leader in U.S. rocket program
 Exit Ticket - Padlet
1. Go to
https://padlet.com/MrsIvarson/obhc1r 3. The post should answer this
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2. Add a post with your First question “Why was the Space
Initial and Last Name (Do Race important?” Write 1
NOT put your full name!) complete sentence minimum
addressing the question.

4. Press the “raise hand”

symbol when you have
completed the task fully.