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With the nuclear annihilation, this effected on the American’s domestic life
Families built bomb shelters in their own backyards
Schools practiced attack drills and other public places
SPACE RACE
Space Exploration
From July 1st, 1957 to December 31st, 1958 was the year of IGY
IGY- International Geophysical Year
July 1955, the White house plans to launch an Earth-orbiting satellite for IGY
This proposal was solicited form various Government research agencies to undertake
development
On October 4th, 1957 the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I
World’s first artificial satellite
Size was about a beach ball
U.S. Defense Department responded by approving funding for another U.S. satellite
project
Space Race
January 31st, 1958, the tides have change; United States launch Explorer I
By the same year President Eisenhower signed a public order, which created the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration aka NASA
Soviets were one step closer on launching the first man in outer space in April 1961
Month after Alan Shepard became the first American man was launch into space
PRESIDENT F.
KENNEDY
His bold public claim: the U.S. would land a man on the
moon by the end of the decade
PRESIDENT
KENNEDY’S MOON
SPEECH
Space Race
He claim that U.S. can send a man to the moon by the end of the decade
Neil Armstrong of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission; he was the first man to step in the moon
It began in 1947, as the House of Un-American Activates Committee (HUAC) brought
the Cold War home
Fewer the 50,000 Americans out of the U.S. population of 150 million ere members of
the Communist Party.
From late 40’s to the early 50’s American’s feared of the international communism that
reached a nearly hysterical pitch
Teachers, steelworkers, sailors, lawyers, and social workers lost their jobs on thinking
that they were communist
Libraries pulled books that ere considered to leftist from their shelves
These banned volumes included the classics as Robin Hood, Henry David Thoreau’s Civil
Disobediences, and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
McCarthyism