HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“America Impresses Soviets by Sending Man to Space”
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“Soviets Shock America by Becoming the First to Send a Satellite to Space”
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“America and the Soviet Union Work Together to Send a Man to Space”
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“America and the Soviet Union Agree to Abandon Space Programs”
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Detailed explanation-1: -October 4: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 into earth orbit. The first man-made satellite passes overhead, making one revolution every 90 minutes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Soviet Union sent a spacecraft over the surface of the moon. It flew approximately 5, 000 kilometers overhead two days after launch. Vostok 1: April 12, 1961-Yuri Gagarin simultaneously becomes the first person in space and the first person to orbit the Earth.
Detailed explanation-3: -On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik (Russian for “traveler”), the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit. Sputnik’s launch came as a surprise, and not a pleasant one, to most Americans.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II.
Detailed explanation-5: -As a result, the launch of Sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions. During the 1950s, both the United States and the Soviet Union were working to develop new technology.