2. Essential Question How did the Cold War impact technology and innovation around the world?

3. Arms Race The rapid increase in the quantity and quality of weapons and military technology by rivals to achieve superiority. Who can create the most powerful weapons?

4. 1945: US develops first Atomic Bomb

5. 1949: Soviet Union creates Atomic Bomb

6. 1952: US creates Hydrogen Bomb http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=NNcQX033V_M

7. 1953: USSR creates Hydrogen Bomb http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=r0dUIq8gHgc

8. 1955: US creates Intercontinental Bomber B-52 Stratofortress – could drop nuclear bombs on Soviet mainland

9. 1956: USSR creates Intercontinental Bomber TU20 Bear – could drop nuclear bombs on US mainland

10. 1957: Soviets create ICBM ICBM – Intercontinental Ballistic Missile – Could be launched from own country and hit rival

11. 1959: US creates ICBM

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14. Space Race Competition between rivals to achieve supremacy in spaceflight capability – Ideological battle: Capitalism vs Socialism Healthy competition – Created “spin-off technologies” that we use today

15. 1957 Soviets launch first satellite into space – Sputnik

16. 1958 US launches its satellite into space – Explorer I

17. 1960 US launches first weather satellite

18. 1961 First Soviet and person in space: Yuri Gagarin

19. 1961 Alan Shepard is first American in space

20. 1969 First manned moon landing – Apollo Mission U.S. is still the only nation to have ever placed people on the Moon