Space Race-
- Race between U.S. and Soviet Union to get to outer space, the moon.
- Soviets were in the lead because of Sputnik.
- After that Science and Math were heavily pushed in the US.
- 1958- Explorer One was our first US satellite.
- Yuri Gagarin- First Person in outer space. USSR.
- 1960- Moon Shot Space.
- 1969- US reached moon.
- Neil Armstrong.
- Buzz Aldrin.
- Space Shuttle.
- 1985- Challenger Explosion.
- NASA.
- MIR- International Space Station.
- Hubble Space Telescope.
Bay of Pigs
- Bay in Cuba.
- Fidel Castro is the leader.
- Just became power a couple years ago.
- Communist.
- Nixon had decided to plan to invade the Bay.
- JFK started it.
- The anti-Castro Cubans carried it out.
- Kennedy would not allow us to help at all so it wouldn't look like the US was involved even though he promised to help.
- It was said that the mafia was involved in the Bay of Pigs.
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