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.