Space race

A Look into the Space Race Between the United

States and the Soviet Union
 Objective

By the end of the lesson, SWBAT

explain how the space race started and
how technology changed our lives.
 Lightning ROund review

What is the difference between Communism

and Capitalism?
What was the Cold War?
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
 cold war

The U.S. and Soviet were trying really hard to

influence countries around the world to become
either Capitalist (U.S.) or Communist (Soviet
Union).
The U.S. tried to contain Communism
The Soviet Union tried to contain Capitalism
Cold War
 SPACE RACE

The U.S. and Soviet Union

competed with everything:
who could build more nuclear
weapons, who could influence
more countries, etc.!

So, it is no surprise that they

competed to see who could get
to space first.
 Sputnik
In 1957, the Soviet Union
won the first victory of the
space race by launching
Sputnik I into space.

It was the first man made

thing (satellite) to ever circle
the Earth.

Boo!

How do you think the U.S.

felt?
 NASA
The U.S. was so mad that the
Soviet Union beat them to
space!

President Kennedy took the

U.S. space program, NASA,
and put a lot of money into it!

President Kennedy guaranteed

that the U.S. would be the first
country to land on the moon.
 Space race

Why did President

Kennedy want the U.S. to
beat the Soviet Union in
the space race?

How would it make the

U.S. look if they kept
falling behind the Soviets
when it came to space
exploration?
 Space Race

If you were Kennedy

what would you do to
get ahead of the
Soviet Union when it
came to the Space
Race?
 U.S. And Space

NASA was making huge strides.

John Glen was the first

American to orbit the Earth - he
did it in February of 1962.

President Kennedy’s guarantee

came true! On July 20th, 1969,
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
landed on the moon!
 man on the moon

America was fixated

on the news to hear
whether or not the
astronauts Neil
Armstrong and Buzz
Aldren would make it
safely on the moon!
 Man on the moon!

This was a major

victory for the U.S. in
the space race - In your
face Soviet Union!

“That’s one small step

for a man, one giant
leap for mankind.” -
Neil Armstrong
Why was putting it a major
victory for the U.S. that the
first man on the moon was
an American?

How did it make America

look?

How did it make the Soviet

Union look?
 Technology

The Cold War brought a

time of technological
advancements.

Can you think of any big

changes in technology
that were developed
around the time of the
Cold War?
 Technology during the cold war
The number of...

TVs sky rocketed...

nuclear power plants and bombs went up...

technologically advanced weapons soared.

A major reason that technology advanced at

such a rapid pace is because the U.S. and
Soviet Union were competing to see who
could invent more things to help them look
more powerful than the other side.
 SPACE RACE CONTINUES
The space race continued for
the rest of the Cold War.

The Soviet Union and the

U.S. competed to see who
could the first satellite and
missiles into space.

Programs like Star Wars were

started - these were very
expensive programs.
 Technology
Technology has changed our
culture and lives!

When a lot of people started

getting T.V. in the 1960‘s people
changed the way they got news.

Think about the Civil Rights

movement.

What technology has changed our

culture today?
 Conclusion
The space race started
between the U.S. and the
Soviet Union in the late
1950s when Sputnik I was
launched into space.

The U.S. was the first

country to get to space in
1969!

Technology has changed our

world!