Space race-
- Soviets led early on
- Sputnik (USSR’s first satellite)
- US feared that soviets lead
- Science and math was heavily pushed in US
- Explore 1- US’ first satellite
- Yuri Gagarin first man in space (USSR)
- 1960- Moonshot speech- JFK
- JFK said that we would be on the moon
- 1969- US reached the moon
- Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin first men on the moon
- 1985- Challenger exploded (Space Shuttle)
- NASA
- Mirror-
- International space station Hubble Space Telescope
- Space shuttle has been retired
Bay a Pigs-
- US didn't like Castro
- bay in Cuba
- Castro allied with communism
- Cubans did the invasion
- invasion failed
- JFK didn't help the Cubans
- JFK promised to help the Cubans with air support
- US trained the Cubans in Gawatamalla
- JFK wouldn't help because he wanted it to seem like it was just Cuba
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