Cold+War+American+Culture

The Impact of the Cold War on American Culture- IDs · Space Race: sputnik, Moon landing, SDI · Olympics: gymnastics 1970s, ice hockey1980s · Red Scare: McCarthyism, HUAC, duck n'cover · The Mushroom Cloud: Movies about nuclear war: The Day After, The War Game, War Games, The Hunt for Red October, Fail Safe (choose 3) · 1984: George Orwell

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 * ID: **Space Race
 * Who: **Soviet Union and United States
 * What: **A competition between the US and USSR to see which country would be able to make the most advancements in space and reach it. They each extensively explored outer space and attempted to send humans out to the moon.
 * Where: **Outer Space, USSR, United States
 * When: **After Launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4th, 1957-1975
 * Why: **The new information about space and satellite equipment allowed each ouuntry to spy on the other during the Cold War. This arms race helped advance the sciences and knowledge of outer space.
 * Source: **http://www.newseum.org/cybernewseum/exhibits/dateline_moon/space.htm
 * ID: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sputnik
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Who: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">USSR
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It was the world’s first artificial satellite. It orbited the Earth in 98 minutes
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Where: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Outer space, USSR
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">When: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">October 4th, 1957
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Why: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The successful launch of this marked the beginning of the US and USSR Space Race era. This also began a plethora of new advancements in science, military and technology. It caught America off guard because they now lived in fear of nuclear missiles. It led directly to the formation of NASA.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Source: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ID: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Moon Landing
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Who: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">America, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon and it marked the first steps by a human on land other than Earth’s.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Where: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Launched from Cape Kennedy
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">When: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">July 16, 1969, landed on moon July 20, 1969
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Why: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It marked the end of the Space Race between USSR and USA because America reached the moon first. This paved the way for many more explorations in space. “One Small Step for Man, One giant leap for mankind”
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Source: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1969-07-21-01-001&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1969-07-21-01
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ID: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">SDI
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Who: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Proposed by US President Ronald Reagan
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Strategic Defense Initiative. He Proposed to use ground and space systems to protect the US from foreign nuculear weapons. It was a military research program designed to develop antiballistic missile defense system. It was described to provide complete protecteion of the US against a nuclear attack.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Where: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">USA
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">When: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Proposed on March 23, 1983
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Why: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Though it never was completed, it paved the way for anti-ballistic missile systems. Because it was a completely different nuclear strategy and it was based on the consept of deterrence through the threat of retaliation, it was criticized to further the arms race between US and USSR
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Source: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/sdi/
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ID: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Olympics
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