THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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The United States was the first to have a man land on Mars.
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The Soviet Union was the first to have a man land on the moon.
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The United States launched an unmanned satellite, Sputnik, into space.
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The Soviet Union launched an unmanned satellite, Sputnik, into space.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The competition gained Western public attention with the “Sputnik crisis", when the USSR achieved the first successful satellite launch, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Sputnik launch marked the start of the space age and the US-USSR space race, and led to the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Cold War in space When the Soviets launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, in October 1957, it set off alarm bells in the Eisenhower administration and created intense fear and anxiety among the US public that the Soviet Union had surpassed the technological achievements of the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -The criticism of American education, especially its public schools, increased immensely with the launching of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, by the Soviet Union in October 1957.
Detailed explanation-5: -Officially, Sputnik was launched to correspond with the International Geophysical Year, a solar period that the International Council of Scientific Unions declared would be ideal for the launching of artificial satellites to study Earth and the solar system.