Space Race: NASA- space organization
- soviets led early
- Sputnik:used to spy
- made us feel vulnerable
- made us feel weak in education(science and math)
- every 20 years there is a push for science and math people
- Yuri Gagatin-USSR-first explorer
- 1960-moonshot-JFK
- 1969 we went to the moon
- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
- space shuttle
- 1985-the challenger exploded
- Christina Calif was a teacher and the first person they took up and it exploded
- Mir- International Space Station
- Hubble is a huge telescope
Bay of Pigs:
- Castro was in charged and he was communist
- Castro becomes in power in 1958-59
- we didn't like him
- the anti-castro Cubans went against the Cubans
- 2,000 people invaded Cuba
- they hope the people in Cuba wouldn't fight against them
- invasion did not work
- the invaders were either killed or put in prison
- JFK was supposed to give the airlift support, but he didn't, after he promised
- Kennedy was caught in a lie
- lied because he didn't want it to look like we were involved
Berlin Blockade/Airlift:
- was our topic
Berlin Wall:
- people could just walk over and be free so theyll built a wall
- didnt want to build it because it would separate families
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