Space race

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Space race

• A Look into the Space Race Between the United
  States and the Soviet Union

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Objective

• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT explain how the
  space race started and how technology changed our
  lives.

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Lightning ROund review

• What is the difference between Communism and
  Capitalism?
• What was the Cold War?

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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

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Cold War
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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.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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Space Race

• If you were Kennedy what would you do to get
  ahead of the Soviet Union when it came to the
  Space Race?

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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 Kennedys guarantee came true! On July
  20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed
  on the moon!

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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!

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Man on the moon!

• This was a major victory for the U.S. in the
  space race - In your face Soviet Union!
• Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap
  for mankind. - Neil Armstrong

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• 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?

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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?

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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.

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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.
• Programs like Star Wars were started - these were
  very expensive programs.

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Technology

• Technology has changed our culture and lives!
• When a lot of people started getting T.V. in the
  1960s people changed the way they got news.
• Think about the Civil Rights movement.
• What technology has changed our culture today?

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Conclusion

• The space race started between the U.S. and the
  Soviet Union in the late 1950s when Sputnik I was
  launched into space.
• The U.S. was the first country to get to space in
  1969!
• Technology has changed our world!