1. Warm Up:  Other than physical combat.. How can you PROVE that you are better/ superior to another person?? ……  Athletics  Weapons, fighting ability  Intelligence

2. (During the COLD WAR)

3. Athletics  Olympic Games  Miracle Hockey Team http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUcnttWV 8d4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUcnttWV 8d4&feature=related  Rocky IV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_vBxVpX Y6c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_vBxVpX Y6c 

4. Nuclear Weapons  By the 1950s Nuclear weapons (invention of the Hydrogen bomb, etc) became more powerful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield  These bombs became a sign of POWER  Candy Auction

5. Dollar auction was the same mentality as the Arms Race  You just compete not to lose.. By doing so you both lose tremendously  Instead of bidding on the dollar bill, the US and USSR was competing to see who had more nuclear weapons. Got to the point where both sides had enough to blow the world up 100x’s over! MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION

6. Arms Race  Street fight scenario.. One upping

7. Technology & “Smarts”  In modern society being smarter = power  Who is more “powerful”??? Remember power is defined by “the ability to get people to do things that YOU want them to, instead of what they want to do. OR

8. Proving you are smarter is difficult  There needs to be a competition of some sort.  How can you PROVE you are smarter than someone else? Well, they found a competition as well…

9. The Space Race  If you could send something into space.. Where else could you send it??  what could you send??  Sending something into space was NOT EASY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2h6fr2kAf4&feature=relat ed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2h6fr2kAf4&feature=relat ed  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkUSceAtCI E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkUSceAtCI E  This continued through to the 1960s and the presidency of JFK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqk1v-KzZ5g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqk1v-KzZ5g

10. What was the… Arms Race???

11. What was the… Space Race???

12.  The cold war was fought through another country… ◦?◦?  Korea, 38 th parallel, Stalemate, etc  Proving you were superior in other ways. ◦ If you can beat someone real bad in athletics… you can probably beat them up ◦ If you can outsmart someone… you can probably beat them up ◦ If you can show you are stronger than them.. They may feel intimidated  … next slide is INTIMIDATION!