Space Race /Arms Race

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Space Race /Arms Race

• between U.S.A and Russia
• By Addis Yilma

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Context

• The growth of atomic weapons between the two
  superpower.
• Who were The two superpowers during the cold war.
• Why was the launch of sputnik so historically
  significant toward the space race.
• The achievements of the superpower involved in
  the space race.
• The out come of the space race and arms race
  between the two cold war superpowers.

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The growth of atomic weapons between the two
superpower.

• in 1949 the united state had dropped two atomic
  bombs on Japan to end world war two.
• Four years later,The Soviet union built their own
  atomic bomb.
• A deadly arms race had begun . Both superpowers
  stockpiled nuclear weapon. By the end of the
  decade,both sides were developing missiles to
  carry bombs to each other 's doorsteps.

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The growth of atomic weapons between the two
superpower.

• neither superpowers wanted to rick an all-out
  instead,they pursued their rivalry indirectly by
  supporting opposite sides in conflict in the
  third world. These were the poorer nation of
  Latin America, Asia and Africa.
• One such conflict brought the supper powers to
  the brink of war.
• In 1962, President John F. Kennedy learned that
  the soviets were supplying Cuba with missiles.
  U.S navy ships blocked the island. The world
  waited to see if the soviet union would remove
  all missiles and missiles bases from Cuba.
• Finally,the soviet Union agreed to remove them.

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Space Racebetween U.S.A and Soviet Union

• Space Race was a competition of space exploration
  between the United State and Soviet Union, which
  lasted roughly from 1957 to 1975.It involved the
  efforts to explore outer space with artificial
  satellites, to send humans into space, and to
  land people on the Moon.
• By 1960 the superpowers were in a space race as
  well as an arms race. Americans were stunned in
  1957 when the Soviet sent Sputnik, a man-made
  satellite,into orbit around the earth.
• Throughout the 1960s,the two nations raced to see
  who would be first to put a person on the moon.

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Space Racebetween U.S.A and Soviet Union

• Americans cheered as Neil Armstrong and Buzz
  Aldrin made the first lunar landing in 1969.

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The two superpowers during the cold war

• The soviet union was a strong socialist republic.
• The united state was strong capitalist republic.
• The soviet union and the united state were in the
  same side during world war 2.
• The united state want all county to be democratic
  and the soviet union want all country to be
  communist
• Both countries ware powerful.
• The soviet wear the world largest stockpile of
  nuclear weapon for the second half of the civil
  war ,and the U.S.A was the largest army in the
  world, and one of the two most powerful air
  forces in the world.
• The soviet were unequal led global intelligence
  network (KG B), the U.S.A were powerful allies in
  Western Europe (NATO).

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The launch of sputnik was so historically
significant toward the space race.

• Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, was
  launched on October 4, 1957 by the U.S.S.R.  It
  was little more than the size of a basketball and
  weighed 184 pounds.  Sputnik was not equipped
  with any scientific instruments, but orbited the
  earth once every 98 minutes.  It contained a
  single radio transmitter.

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The launch of sputnik was so historically
significant toward the space race.

• Forty years later, the Cold War is over, and the
  Russian space program frightens only its own
  cosmonauts.
• That launch ushered in new political, military,
  technological, and scientific developments. While
  the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked
  the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R
  space race.

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The firsts achievements of the space race during
cold war

• They both sent human on the moon.
• They both develop technology while they compete
  to be better than the other.
• They brought different type of atomic weapons and
  made the world to fear the other country.
• The Russian sent the first women Valentina
  Tereshkova on the moon i.
• The Russian also sent a dog to the moon.

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video

• http//streaming.discoveryeducation.com/search/ass
  etDetail.cfm?guidAssetID8ABE4A8B-7587-4DE2-8039-0
  5FEF02CCC0E

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cause and effect of cold warcauses

• soviet domination of eastern Europe.
• communist victory in China.
• Distrust between united state and soviet union.
• immediate effects
• Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan.
• founding of NATO and Warsaw pact.
• East West tension.
  

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cause and effect of cold warcauses

• long term effect
• Arms race between United State and Soviet Union.
• Rivalry between United State and Soviet Union for
  world power.

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sources

• http//streaming.discoveryeducation.com/search/ass
  etDetail.cfm?guidAssetID8ABE4A8B-7587-4DE2-8039-0
  5FEF02CCC0E
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vH4RoCupsx1c
• http//www.google.com/search?hlenqThegrowthof
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• http//www.answers.com/topic/space-race-1
• http//wiki.answers.com/Q/What_two_superpowers_wer
  e_involved_in_the_Cold_War
• http//www.sindark.com/NonBlog/Articles/SpacePrim.
  pdf
• http//www.collectspace.com/news/news-072303a.html
  
• http//lukepdq.blogspot.com/2006/11/cold-war-retur
  ns-cause-and-effect.html