1. The Space and Arms Race

2. Explain the societal and economic impact of defense buildup during the Cold War.
Draw evidence from informational text to describe the impact of the space race on the society and the economy.
Objectives

3. The Butter Battle Book

4. Warm-Up Butter Side Up – Yooks Butter Side Down – Zooks The Wall
Democracy & Capitalism (USA)
Butter Side Down – Zooks
Communism (USSR)
The Wall
The Iron Curtain (Churchill)
Grandpa – US Military
Van Itch – Soviet Miltary
Warm-Up

5. What do you think Dr. Seuss was implying about the Cold War and the Arms Race?
This book was written in 1984, six years before official end of the Cold War. Why might this affect how the book ends?
What do you think would happen next if Dr. Seuss continued with his story?
Cold War?

6. THE ARMS RACE U.S. was first to develop an Atomic/Nuclear bomb
The US led the world in military technology and wanted to stay ahead.
The arms race was the competition to develop new, bigger and more destructive weapons
THE ARMS RACE

7. Arms Race H-bomb (Hydrogen), Thousand X stronger than a-bomb
Nov. 1952, Soviet Union 9 mos. Later
Castle Bravo, Marshall Island
“Ike” and brinkmanship – finger on the trigger
MAD – mutually assured destruction
National Securities Act (CIA)
Arms Race

8. Civil Defense Admin./Authority
Organized by Truman in Dec. 1950
After Soviets tested their bomb, feeling of the need to do something in America to prepare for MAD
CDA coordination/directed fed., st., & local civil defense program activities
Fallout shelters
Bio/chem/radiological warfare defense
Emergency comm./warning systems
Post-attack/damage assist.
Preparedness planning
Abolished July 20, 1979 (FEMA)
Civil Defense Admin./Authority

9. Fallout Shelter

11. Military Industrial Complex (America)
A country’s military establishment & industries producing arms/military material, regarded as a powerful vested interest
In 1950 the total US budget was $40 billion and $12 billion was spent on the military.
In 1960 the total budget was $92 billion and $80 billion was spent on the military.
Military Industrial Complex (America)

12. International Cold War
Eisenhower Doctrine – U.S. will defend the Middle East against Communism
Why would the U.S. want to defend the Middle East? (Think about resources.)
International Cold War

13. Cold War Hungary (1956) wanted out of the Warsaw Pact (revolted)
Soviet Union sent tanks, men
Soviet Union killed 30,000 revolutionaries
U.S. did NOT intervene b/c they were Soviet Union’s satellite nation
Cold War

14. Cold war takes flight

15. The US captured Werner Von Braun, who had been head of research for the Germans
Von Braun wanted to continue his research in America
SPACE RACE AND ROCKETS

16. Cold War Takes Flight Stalin died 1953 and Nikita Khrushchev took over
Space Race
Oct. 4, 1957, Sputnik
Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer I
Cold War Takes Flight

17. Soviet Russia then launched an unmanned satellite into space called Sputnik
This created a sense of panic in the US. They were afraid that the Soviets might be able to launch a missile attack from space and it would not be able to be detected.
Sputnik

18. Fidel + Nikita = BFFs

19. NASA NASA set up by President Eisenhower.
In 1958 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was set up with the aim of catching up and then overtaking Soviet Russia in the space race.
NASA

20. 16th July – Launch Kennedy Space Centre. 9:32am
19th July – reached Orbit
20th July – Landing – 2 and half hour moon walk
22nd July – Leave Moon Orbit to return
24th July – Land in the Pacific.
APOLLO 11 – Moon landing

21. Neil Armstrong – born 1930 – naval pilot Korean war – Astronaut 1962 – Gemini 8 (68) – back up commander Apollo 8 – Commander Apollo 11 – 1st on moon
Buzz Aldrin – 1930 – combat pilot Korea – Astronaut 63 – PHD astronautics – 5 hr space walk 1966 Gemini 12 – Lunar Module pilot – 2nd on moon
Michael Collins – Test fighter pilot – 63 astronaut – pilot Gemini 10 (66) – command module pilot
ASTRONAUTS

23. “It All Started With Sputnik”
What changes did Sputnik spur in American society?
“It All Started With Sputnik”

24. Find a read aloud of Dr. Seuss’s “The Butter Battle Book” on YouTube
Find a read aloud of Dr. Seuss’s “The Butter Battle Book” on YouTube. Write a 5-6 sentence paragraph explaining how it symbolizes the competition between the US and the USSR during the Cold War.
Homework

25. You Choose… Butter Battle Book Ending
The Space Race is over… (Or is it?)
Butter Battle Book Ending
The launch of U.S. space vehicles came to halt in
July of Some people believe that the U.S.
should completely abandon human space travel
because of its cost, and others believe that we are
making a mistake by discontinuing the space shuttle
program and losing our place as leaders in space
exploration.
Think about the costs and consequences of a U.S.
space program, as well as the funding spent on defense; then write a short essay in which you
take a position either for or against the continuation
of a U.S. space program and/or increase in defense spending.
Must be at least 2 paragraphs (or at least 12 sentences)
Write an ending to The Butter Battle Book. Your ending must be at least 2 paragraphs long and be in the style of Dr. Seuss (Rhyming)
You Choose…