1. Unit 9: The 50’s & The Cold War

2. Entry Task
Grab the reading from the back table & finish yesterday’s JFK questions please.

3. The Space Race

4. MAD: Soviets vs. U.S.
During the Cold War, America and the Soviet Union came to rely on a theory called Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)
If each country could destroy the other, neither would use their nuclear weapons b/c they would fear destruction
Nuclear policy today still depends on this idea

5. Arms & Space The arms race also led to the space race
Both countries wanted:
To ensure their safety
To prove their superiority

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMFvr1VwSSo (3:10)
Cold War CNN Sputnik 22-27

7. Sputnik Soviet Union launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957
1st artificial satellite to orbit earth

8. Significance Soviets have technological superiority
Winning the space race
Soviets have nuclear delivery superiority
Americans worried that the same rocket used to launch Sputnik, ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile), could carry a hydrogen bomb
Psychological fear to Americans
We need to catch up!

9. Effects
Led to creation of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Education: National Defense Education Act
Gave $ to schools to improve math, science and foreign language education

10. US Accomplishments Alan Shepard First American in space – 5/5/61
Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
First men to set foot on the moon – 7/20/69

11. Space Race Timeline
You will examine a series of short articles about the space race and create your own Space Race Timeline
Pick 5 events that you think are the most important- create a timeline in using these events. Make sure to include why this event is significant.

12. Moon Speech, May 25, 1961