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Unit 9: The Cold War

2. The Space Race

3. 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

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

5. Space Race Timeline
You will examine do a gallery walk of the key events of the Space Race
Fill in your timeline in using these events. Make sure to include why this event is significant.

6.
Unit 9: The Cold War

7. Sputnik Soviet Union launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957
1st artificial satellite to orbit earth
22:16-27:21

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. Moon Speech, May 25, 1961