The Space Race and Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM’s)
Notes:
- In 1957 the Soviets launch the first Earth-orbiting satellite named Sputnik.
- About the size of a basketball and only made beeps
- People feared that atomic weapons would soon be delivered without airplanes
- This gave the USSR an upper hand and they began to demand concesssions
- (ICBM) Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
- MIRVs (Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles)
- Nuclear submarines
- M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)
- Pre-emptive Strike
- SAC (Strategic Air Command) planes flying 24 hours a day
Summary: Soviets are first to launch a satellite into space. Space race was on between the two superpowers.
Subjective question: How would have history played out if the us did not put a person on the moon first?
Quote: " We choose to go to the moon in this decade" - JFK
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