The Cold War: The Space Race

The Cold War happened between the years of 1945 and 1991, it was a time of military, political, and economic tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. Just after the second World War had ended, complications came up around the area of international power, who would gain more power and who would lose power. The main thing the Soviet Union attempted to do during this shifting of power was they tried to gain more territory in order to solidify their spot as a world wide power, while the United States attempted to limit the territory gained by the Soviet Union. The multitude of ideological differences separated the two countries as well, especially in the years coming after the second World War, during that time the American government
The final act in the space race was when the United States put a man on the moon, beating the Soviet Union who had started the space racy by launching the first satellite called Sputnik. In an attempt to land on the moon the Soviet Union failed four times between the years of 1969 and 1972. The entire world's attention was taken over throughout the Space Race, also the multitude of scientific discoveries by both the United States and Soviet Union's space programs were covered almost every day in the media. After the Space Race Soviets were pictured as villains around the world, with their many attempts to beat American democracy and show how powerful the communist party is. After the Space Race had ended the world's interest in space had begun to fade. But in an attempt to show the ever improving United States-Soviet relationship, in 1975 the two countries combined through the Apollo-Soyuz mission and sent three American astronauts into space aboard an Apollo spacecraft which then met up in orbit with a Soviet-made Soyuz vehicle. When the commanders of both spacecrafts met each other, their handshake symbolized the overall improvement of United States-Soviet relations after the Cold War had