John Caliri, Matthew Bologna, Chase Smith, and Michael Heem Space Race/ Arms Race John Caliri, Matthew Bologna, Chase Smith, and Michael Heem

The Growth of Nuclear weapons The Cold war was a time of verbal conflict between the u.s.a. and the u.s.s.r., which were the superpowers at the time  Both America and Russia massively built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons This was a time period of technological advances for each side America tested the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, beating the Russians

The Growth of Nuclear weapons continued After the war, both the Soviet Union and the United States continued rocket development. Both had captured German engineers at the end of World War II Wernher von Braun came to the United States to continue his work. Some of his V-2 rockets were tested at White Sands, New Mexico the Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb On August 29, 1949 The next step for each nation was to develop an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) which could deliver a nuclear weapon from that nation's soil to its enemy's cities and military base

United states advancements President Truman establishes the Federal Civil Defense Administration on January 12th 1951 On April 4th 1951, U.S. physicist Edward Teller submits report on new design for H-bomb On May 9th 1951, U.S. conducts the "George" test in the Pacific, which was a large fission bomb that triggered the first thermonuclear reaction March 1st 1954 the us tested another hydrogen bomb,  "Bravo“, in the Pacific, at Bikini Atoll.

Soviet union advancements September 24th, 1951 Soviet Union conducts its second nuclear test, an improved plutonium bomb First test of Soviet thermonuclear device takes place in august 12th 1953 September 14th 1954, 44,000 Soviet troops take part in a military exercise involving the dropping of an atomic bomb The Soviet Union unexpectedly accepts UN proposal for nuclear disarmament on may 10th 1955 November 22nd, 1956: First Soviet thermonuclear bomb is dropped in Kazakhstan from an aircraft in test, with a force equivalent to 1.6 megatons of TNT

Limiting Nuclear Threat 1955 May 10th, The Soviet Union unexpectedly accepts UN proposal for nuclear disarmament May 14th, Warsaw Pact is signed September 6th, U.S. delegate Harold Stassen announces that America no longer supports UN plan calling for complete nuclear disarmament 1956 March, U.S. explains its opposition to nuclear disarmament at UN stating that atomic weapons are a powerful deterrent to war 1963 October 10th Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty goes into effect

Start of space race wernher von braun did Work provided the basis for all early nasa missions First director of nasa The soviets unions launch of the sputnik (the worlds first artificial satellite) on October 1st 1957 Caused panic in the us, people thought that the soviets would dominate the world through space exploration it made the us think that it was possible for Russia to send nuclear weapons through space

Formation of nasa Formed in 1958 after congress passed the national aeronotics and space act Direct response in the launch of the sputnik Provided organization and direction to the u.s space program However The USA quickly discovered the earth was flat, ending the space race once and for all

First men in space In April 12th 1961, Russia succeeded in sending a man, Yuri Gagarin, into space and safely returning him home The space craft that he ventured in was called the vostok 1 Alan shepard was the first American to enter space, on the freedom 7 spacecraft, on may 5th, 1961 In January of 1967, three astronauts were killed after their spacecraft Caught fire during a launch simulation

Firsts in space In 1959, the Soviet space program took another step forward with the launch of Luna 2, the first space probe to hit the moon In February 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth On July 16, 1969, U.S. astronauts Neil armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael collins set off on the Apollo 11 space mission, the first lunar landing attempt  After landing successfully on July 20, Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon’s surface, with his famous words “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”

Conclusion of space race By landing on the moon, the United States technically “won” the space race that had begun with the launch of Sputnik  the Soviets made four failed attempts to launch a lunar landing craft between 1969 and 1972, including a launch-pad explosion in July 1969  towards the end of the space race U.S. government’s interest in lunar missions waned after the early 1970s In 1975, the Apollo-Soyuz mission sent U.S. astronauts into space that docked in orbit with a Soviet-made Soyuz vehicle. When the commanders of the two crafts greeted each other, their handshake in space served to symbolize the gradual improvement of U.S.-Soviet relations in the late Cold War-era