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Essential Question. How did the Cold War impact technology and innovation around the world?. Arms Race. The rapid increase in the quantity and quality of weapons and military technology by rivals to achieve superiority. Who can create the most powerful weapons?.

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  1. Essential Question • How did the Cold War impact technology and innovation around the world?

  2. Arms Race • The rapid increase in the quantity and quality of weapons and military technology by rivals to achieve superiority. • Who can create the most powerful weapons?

  3. 1945: US develops first Atomic Bomb

  4. 1949: Soviet Union creates Atomic Bomb

  5. 1952: US creates Hydrogen Bomb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcQX033V_M

  6. 1953: USSR creates Hydrogen Bomb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dUIq8gHgc

  7. 1955: US creates Intercontinental Bomber • B-52 Stratofortress – could drop nuclear bombs on Soviet mainland

  8. 1956: USSR creates Intercontinental Bomber • TU20 Bear – could drop nuclear bombs on US mainland

  9. 1957: Soviets create ICBM • ICBM – Intercontinental Ballistic Missile • Could be launched from own country and hit rival

  10. 1959: US creates ICBM

  11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMYYEsKvHvk

  12. Space Race • Competition between rivals to achieve supremacy in spaceflight capability • Ideological battle: Capitalism vs Socialism • Healthy competition • Created “spin-off technologies” that we use today

  13. 1957 • Soviets launch first satellite into space • Sputnik

  14. 1958 • US launches its satellite into space • Explorer I

  15. 1960 • US launches first weather satellite

  16. 1961 • First Soviet and person in space: Yuri Gagarin

  17. 1961 • Alan Shepard is first American in space

  18. 1969 • First manned moon landing – Apollo Mission • U.S. is still the only nation to have ever placed people on the Moon

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