The document discusses the Space Race between the US and USSR during the Cold War from 1957-1975. The two superpowers competed to achieve firsts in space exploration, such as launching satellites, sending humans into space, and landing on the Moon, which were seen as demonstrations of technological and ideological superiority. The Space Race began with the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 and concluded with the US landing astronauts on the Moon in 1969, achieving President Kennedy's goal. The Space Race had long-term effects on education in the US by inspiring greater emphasis on STEM subjects in schools.

3.  By the 1950. the US and the USSR were the
two most powerful nations in the world.
 The conflicting ideologies and goals of these
rival nations to led to the worldwide struggle
for influence.
 The policies followed by the two
superpowers helped shape the modern
history of much the world, from Latin
America to the middle east.

4.  The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th
century competition between the Soviet
Union (USSR) and the United States (US) for
supremacy in space exploration. Between
1957 and 1975, Cold War rivalry between the
two nations focused on attaining firsts in
space exploration, which were seen as
necessary for national security and symbolic
of technological and ideological advantage.

5.  The Space Race had its origins in the missile-
based arms race that occurred just after the
end of the World War II, when both the Soviet
Union and the United States captured
advanced German rocket technology and
workers.

6. 1. attaining firsts in space exploration, which
were seen as necessary for save the nation
and a symbol of technological and
ideological power.
2. To see which nation that have more
technology and the ability to explore the
space.
3. explore outer space with artificial
satellites, to send humans into space, and to
land them on the Moon.

7.  First,, the USSR sent a satellite to the space
that called Sputnik 1.
 then they sent a dog that called Laika, but
the dog didn’t reach the earth again, so it
died in orbit and they didn’t see it  ..

8.  The launches shocked many Americans, they
wanted to make something to beat the
Russians.
 so they spent $1 billion to produce more
scientists and teachers of science.
 They sent a group of men to the moon..

9.  On October the 4th 1961, the Soviet Union
launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite
to enter orbit. This started the Space Race.

10.  One part of the space race was the race to
put a man into space. This first was won by
the Soviet Union when Major Yuri Gagarin
orbited the earth on April the 12th 1961.

11.  On May the 25th 1961, in a speech to a joint sitting of
congress, President John F Kennedy of the United States of
America set the impossible sounding goal of landing a man
on the Moon by the end of the decade. This also implied a
challenge to the Russians to try to do it first. The Americans
won this part of the race in 1969 when Neil Armstrong and
Edwin Aldrin Jr landed on the moon and returned safely to
the earth.

12. The long term effects of the space race on
Nebraska and other regions of the country
came in the way the space race changed the
educational system and the imaginations of
our people. Shortly after Sputnik, lawmakers
and the public began calling for a greater
emphasis on math and science in the nation's
schools. Governments put in more money, and
the educational system responded. Students
began to get more math and science courses.