WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Space Race between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) was a remarkable time in history with many far-reaching achievements in science, space exploration, and technology. This timeline shows the twenty-year competition between the two nations.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -From the beginning, the Space Race was an extension of this ideological battle between the two nations. Space became the final frontier for the United States and Soviet Union to compete to prove their status as sole superpower.

Detailed explanation-4: -WATCH VIDEO: World War I Alliances Moreover, Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles and began to rearm. This started a new arms race in Europe between Germany, France and Britain-and in the Pacific between Japan and the United States-which continued into World War II.

Detailed explanation-5: -Initially, only the United States possessed atomic weapons, but in 1949 the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb and the arms race began. Both countries continued building more and bigger bombs. In 1952, the United States tested a new and more powerful weapon: the hydrogen bomb.