PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE GREAT SOCIETY PROGRAM
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the Berlin Airlift Crisis
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the Cuban Missile Crisis
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the Great Society
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the Cold War
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Detailed explanation-1: -"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, ” Kennedy told the crowd at Rice University in Houston.
Detailed explanation-2: -Space was the latest theater for battling the Cold War and provided an opportunity for the United States to promote leadership and demonstrate the technological advances of a free and democratic society. In order to do that, the United States needed to reach the Moon before the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -The fact that the Soviets were successful fed fears that the U.S. military had generally fallen behind in developing new technology. As a result, the launch of Sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1961, President John F. Kennedy began a dramatic expansion of the U.S. space program and committed the nation to the ambitious goal of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.