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Gas Stations Soviet Union
1,226 wordsAnother element that was present in the 1950 's was automobiles. Automobiles were something that everyone once dreamed of owning. Now after the war. they could finally own one. Automobiles of the 1940 's were dull and very plain. This was because designers were too busy designing tanks, planes, etc... for the ongoing war. The major event that took place that changed the way cars looked and how they performed happened on October 14, 1947. This was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. From t...
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Cold War Space Race
1,370 wordsWar is an event that represents the situation of a state and how it is revolutionized. It introduces new factors that sometimes force nations others to join in the enhancing of ideas. In particular, the new face of the ideological or new age concept was brought up. The United States of America and the former Union of Soviet Socialists Republic engaged in an ideological conflict known as the Cold War from 1945 to 1989. It was a time of differences between democracy and communism. The other main c...
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Cold War Space Race
1,371 words... d to the USSR. Now, the cold war had established a permanent space race. The U. S. Army's attempt to launch America's first satellite into orbit failed in a launch pad explosion. Two months after the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik, this failure further emphasized America's lag behind the Soviet Union in the space race. Having already lost the race to launch the world's first artificial satellite to the Soviet Union, the United States accelerated its plan to develop an unmanned M...
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Nuclear Arms Race World War Ii
2,499 words1960 - 1970 Table Of Contents Womens Movement I. Gloria Steinem pages 1 - 4 Cold War I. Life into Orbit pages 5 - 7 II. Arms Race pages 8 - 12 III. Berlin Wall pages 12 - 20 Bibliography pages 21 - 22 Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem is heroine. When she was little, Gloria lived with her crazy mother. Gloria went to graduate from Smith College, and then she moved to India to study. While she was in India, she realizes just how much females were discriminated against. In India it was much worse than...
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World War Ii End Of World War
680 wordsWhen World War II in Europe came to an end on May 7, 1945, a new war was just beginning. This war became known as the Cold War and was between the two world superpowers, the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR). The Cold War lasted from 1945 to 1991. Fears between the two nations, which started in World War I, and grew in World War II, caused the Cold War to break after the end of World War II. The conflict in the Cold War was the difference in politics between the US and the USSR. The...
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Cold War Control System
1,263 wordsThe Cold War background to the Arrow. The threat was from across the Pole, and the swaggering post-war Royal Canadian Air Force wanted a strong deterrent. Design: The Arrow was primarily a triumph of innovative design. Here we glance at a few of the aircrafts design features. The Arrows fall from favor is an account of political intrigue and indecision in the face of a technologically changing world. The seeds that would ultimately doom it would be sown very early in the Arrow's life. In Decembe...
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History Around The Russian Launch Of Sputnik
2,086 wordsThe launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik on October 4 th, 1957 had a profound influence on both American and Russian culture, ranging from the inception of the space race to the mass hysteria the ensued in America afterwards. Sputnik was the product of massive amounts of money and research poured into a missile and satellite program by both the American and Soviet governments. Even though The soviet union might have been the first country to put a satellite into space, this does not necessari...
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History Around The Russian Launch Of Sputnik
1,051 words... omen. Who, in the case of Sputnik, reacted to a lesser degree like the rest of the public, but still with a feeling of urgency and impending doom. Some saw these events only as a sign of the eventual rule of the Russian Empire, while at the same time others met it with great political opportunism. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, a future advocate of government stated that unless our defense policies are promptly changed, the Soviets will move from Superiority to supremacy. If that happ...
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History Around The Russian Launch Of Sputnik
1,065 words... isenhowers felling that the US had, No need to compete in this area [satellites], the public did not feel this way. In early 1955 Nelson Rockefeller published a paper to the Operations Coordinating board predicting the shock that a Russian satellite would have on the American people. Even earlier then those researchers at the Office of Navel Research pursued funding for a satellite with the sole reason of calming the American reaction to a eventual Soviet spacecraft. The funding was denied. ...
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States And The Soviet Union United States And The Soviet
1,164 wordsOn May 1, 1960, two weeks prior to the United States-Soviet Summit in Paris, a U- 2 high altitude reconnaissance airplane was shot down while flying a spy mission over the Soviet Union. The Eisenhower administration was forced to own up to the mission, and Khrushchev canceled the Paris Summit. As a result, The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union continued for over 30 years. Shortly after the end of World War II, United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two superpower...
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U S S R Soviet Union
1,080 wordsAmerica on the other hand was not at all concerned about its security. Many other western countries had encouraged America to take leadership in the west because of its stability and ability to ensure protection to the other smaller, less powerful countries. America was the most powerful country at that time and many nationalistic Americans felt that America should behave like a super-power and take the leading role in world affairs. America had always needed to invest money abroad to ensure its...
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World War Ii Ballistic Missiles
1,170 wordsWAR FROM THE COLD WAR TO PRESENT The end of World War II was the spawn of a new war that would continue for over fifty years: The Cold War. Technically this war was not a fifty-year physical confrontation between two countries but more of a political confrontation between the world's two remaining super-powers. The dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the beginning of a new arsenal that would lead to the development of nuclear weapons. After Japan and Germany were de...
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Gas Stations Space Race
1,242 wordsAnother element that was present in the 1950 s was automobiles. Automobiles were something that everyone once dreamed of owning. Now after the war. they could finally own one. Automobiles of the 1940 s were dull and very plain. This was because designers were too busy designing tanks, planes, etc for the ongoing war. The major event that took place that changed the way cars looked and how they performed happened on October 14, 1947. This was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. From this p...
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Significant Events E Mail
866 wordsThe Internet is perhaps todays most influential technological advance. Significant events in history contributing to the development of the Internet can be traced back to as early as 1858. As the Internet expands in the future, it stands to gain control over much of the world. The earliest event in history leading to the development of the Internet took place in 1858. This was the laying of the Atlantic Cable. It was laid to provide instantaneous communication across the ocean. Although it was s...
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Advanced Research Projects Agency Soviet Union
552 wordsSputnik, name of the first of several artificial satellites launched by the Soviet Union from 1957 to 1961. The goals of the Sputnik program included studying the earths upper atmosphere, observing animal survival in space flight, and testing Soviet rocket technology. The launch of the unmanned Sputnik 1 and of Sputnik 2, which carried a dog, spurred the United States to invest more money and resources into its fledgling space program, initiating a race between the two nations to land a person o...
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