war started between the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic ‚USSR‚ and United States. This war was called the Cold War. There were many things invented during the cold war such as Sputnik. Sputnik was the very first satellite ever launched into space. This gave the USSR the edge on the race to space. (Sputnik) With Sputnik being launched‚ the US was falling behind in the Space Race. Something had to be done. They had to recruit Werhner Von Braun. This operation was called Operation Paperclip. Operation
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An Increasingly Globalized Planet In his book A Brief History of Globalization: The Untold Story of Our Incredible Shrinking Planet‚ Alex MacGillivray interprets four historical phases: the Iberian carve-up‚ the Britannic meridian‚ Sputnik world‚ and the global-supply chain. -------------. MacGillivray supports his arguments of movement and trade creating an increasingly globalized planet by giving examples of the ? in the ? phase‚ ? in the ? phase‚ ? in the ? phase‚ and ? in the ? phase. MacGillivray
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to an education. In Document 6‚ the launching of the Soviet Satellite Sputnik destroyed the US’s general education. The Soviet’s Satellite Sputnik was the first satellite to be released into the atmosphere. When the US found out about the Sputnik‚ the Cold War turned into the Space Race. The Space Race was a race between the US and the USSR to develop technology to allow “firsts” in exploration of space. The Sputnik forced the US to place a new national priority On research science. It
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After the exhausting World War II‚ a new battle soon arose in the early 1950’s and continued throughout the 1960’s for the United States: the Space Race. This heated competition began between the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union‚ lead to immense costs‚ heightened rivalries and a blooming of scientific discoveries in the space exploration field. The extensive Space Race was just an element to the Cold War‚ an expanding strain between the Allies and Axis powers. Each side wanted
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The Space Race After fighting alongside each other in the Second World War to defeat a common enemy‚ differing political ideologies resulted in high tensions between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The Soviet communist government‚ initiated during the Bolshevik Revolution‚ posed a direct threat to the goal of the United States to spread democracy and capitalism across the globe. These rising tensions manifested themselves in the form of the Cold War-a series of conflicts and antagonism between
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rumors that the U.S. was planning on launching a satellite into space‚ they hurried and built Sputnik 1‚ the first satellite in space on October 4‚ 1957. Sputnik one was about the size of a beach ball. Sputnik 1 had weight of 183.9 lbs. and a diameter of 22.8 inches. The U.S. was afraid that with Russia having great accomplishments‚ that they would be able to drop bombs on the U.S. After Russia built sputnik 1 they wanted to go further
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themselves as technologically superior to other nations. They did just that as they shocked the entire world with the launch of Sputnik‚ the first man-made object ever to orbit the Earth. In order to launch their satellite before the Americans‚ Russian scientists designed a “simple satellite made of two hemispheres containing sensors‚ a radio and a battery pack‚” (Sputnik‚ the tiny sphere that launched the space race). Originally‚ the Russian satellite was designed to be “a large satellite with a
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Strange Polygonal Shapes Spotted Scientists have discovered that Pluto’s heart informally known as Sputnik Planum appears to be continuously youthful. It was emptied of impact craters and was seen speckled with mysterious polygonal shapes between six and 24 miles in diameter. The planet’s heart has no impact craters‚ which means that there is some kind of geological process that coated Pluto’s Sputnik Planum fairly recently. The broken frozen heart of Pluto might still be beating because it replenishes
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heavily communist country and considered the greatest threat to our nation. As a result of this view on the soviet’s intentions‚ the American people were highly suspicious when they encountered the first man made satellite put into orbit known as Sputnik 1. Sputnik 1 was the first successful venture by any organization to make it into space‚ which was conducted by the Russians. After the Americans
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Summary The story starts at Coalwood in West Virginia hearing a transmission about the satellite called Sputnik 1‚ invented by Warner Von Braun a scientist in the United States of America. Homer Hickman is a kid in high school with a dream to go to college. The townspeople in Coalwood gather around to see the Sputnik 1. After waiting‚ suddenly a man yells “I see it” the Sputnik was flying like a star. From that moment Homer though that he could do the same thing as Warner Von Braun did.
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