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Space Race /Arms Race
between U.S.A and Russia
By Addis Yilma
Context
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The growth of atomic weapons
between the two superpower.
Who were The two superpowers
during the cold war.
Why was the launch of sputnik so
historically significant toward the
space race.
The achievements of the
superpower involved in the space
race.
The out come of the space race
and arms race between the two
cold war superpowers.
The growth of atomic weapons
between the two superpower.
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in 1949 the united state had dropped two
atomic bombs on Japan to end world war
two.
Four years later,The Soviet union built
their own atomic bomb.
A deadly arms race had begun . Both
superpowers stockpiled nuclear weapon.
By the end of the decade,both sides were
developing missiles to carry bombs to
each other 's doorsteps.
The growth of atomic weapons
between the two superpower.
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neither superpowers wanted to rick an all-out
instead,they pursued their rivalry indirectly by supporting
opposite sides in conflict in the third world. These were
the poorer nation of Latin America, Asia and Africa.
One such conflict brought the supper powers to the brink
of war.
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy learned that the
soviets were supplying Cuba with missiles. U.S navy
ships blocked the island. The world waited to see if the
soviet union would remove all missiles and missiles
bases from Cuba.
Finally,the soviet Union agreed to remove them.
Space Race
between U.S.A and Soviet Union
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Space Race was a competition of space
exploration between the United State and Soviet
Union, which lasted roughly from 1957 to 1975.It
involved the efforts to explore outer space with
artificial satellites, to send humans into space,
and to land people on the Moon.
By 1960 the superpowers were in a space race
as well as an arms race. Americans were
stunned in 1957 when the Soviet sent Sputnik, a
man-made satellite,into orbit around the earth.
Throughout the 1960s,the two nations raced to
see who would be first to put a person on the
moon.
Space Race
between U.S.A and Soviet Union
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Americans cheered as Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made
the first lunar landing in 1969.
The two superpowers during the
cold war
The soviet union was a strong socialist republic.
 The united state was strong capitalist republic.
 The soviet union and the united state were in the same
side during world war 2.
 The united state want all county to be democratic and the
soviet union want all country to be communist
 Both countries ware powerful.
 The soviet wear the world largest stockpile of nuclear
weapon for the second half of the civil war ,and the U.S.A
was the largest army in the world, and one of the two most
powerful air forces in the world.
 The soviet were unequal led global intelligence network
(KG B), the U.S.A were powerful allies in Western Europe
(NATO).
The launch of sputnik was so historically
significant toward the space race.
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Sputnik, the first man-made
satellite, was launched on
October 4, 1957 by the
U.S.S.R. It was little more
than the size of a basketball
and weighed 184
pounds. Sputnik was not
equipped with any scientific
instruments, but orbited the
earth once every 98
The launch of sputnik was so historically significant
toward the space race.
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Forty years later, the Cold War is
over, and the Russian space
program frightens only its own
cosmonauts.
That launch ushered in new political,
military, technological, and scientific
developments. While the Sputnik
launch was a single event, it marked
the start of the space age and the
U.S.-U.S.S.R space race.
The firsts achievements of the
space race during cold war
They both sent human on the moon.
 They both develop technology while they
compete to be better than the other.
 They brought different type of atomic
weapons and made the world to fear the
other country.
 The Russian sent the first women Valentina
Tereshkova on the moon i.
 The Russian also sent a dog to the moon.
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cause and effect of cold war
causes
soviet domination of eastern Europe.
 communist victory in China.
 Distrust between united state and soviet
union.
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immediate effects
 Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan.
 founding of NATO and Warsaw pact.
 East West tension.
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cause and effect of cold war
causes
long term effect
 Arms race between United State and Soviet
Union.
 Rivalry between United State and Soviet
Union for world power.
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sources
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