COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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A reduction in weapons spending.
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An increase in technology and the “space race.”
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Economic equality for Eastern and Western Europe.
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What major technological advances were important in the Cold War and the space race? First artificial satellite and GPS. Nowadays we are dependent on satellites. First man in space and first landing on the moon.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cold War lasted until 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Space Race played a significant part in the Cold War as the Americans and Soviets competed to prove their technological and intellectual superiority by becoming the first nation to put a human into space.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union engaged a competition to see who had the best technology in space. This included such events as who could put the first manned spacecraft into orbit and who would be the first to walk on the Moon.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Space Race brought pioneering launches of artificial satellites, robotic space probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and ultimately to the Moon.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national-security restrictions.