PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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the Korean War
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the Space Race
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the Vietnam War
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the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Detailed explanation-1: -The launch of Sputnik spurred what has become known as the Space Race, which was a competition for dominance in space exploration between Russia and the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1958, just a year after Sputnik, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act (NDEA), a $1-billion spending package to bolster high-quality teaching and learning in science, mathematics and foreign languages.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was called Sputnik. People in the United States were shocked when they heard about Sputnik because it showed that the Soviet Union had the science to send an object to space. The United States worked hard and sent its first satellite in January 1958.
Detailed explanation-4: -On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union shocked the people of the United States by successfully launching the first earth-orbiting satellite, Sputnik.
Detailed explanation-5: -While it often fuelled Cold War rivalry and paranoia, the Space Race also yielded considerable benefits for human society. Space exploration required and produced rapid improvements and advances in many fields, including telecommunications, micro-technology, computer science and solar power.