the+cold+war

C opy this page onto a new page in your online notebook. To get an overview of the origins of the Cold War, begin by reading [|Allies to Enemies: Origins of the Cold War] from ABC-CLIO. **Use pages 794-799 in //Creating America // and ** **[|“The Cold War” research list on ABC-CLIO] ** **to ** **develop a complete description ** **for each event or idea from the early years of the Cold War. ** **This information will help set the stage for tomorrow's activity. Use the first entry as an example for detail. **  ||< ||
 * < **THE YALTA CONFERENCE **
 * Meeting near the end of WWII - big 3 meet to discuss post war Europe
 * Germany will be divided, controlled by the Allies
 * Liberated Eastern European countries will have new elections
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">United Nations will be formed
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">USSR is given great influence over Eastern Europe, and new government must be "Soviet freindly"
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">the roots of the Cold War are established ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:yalta.jpg width="299" height="227" align="center" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:un.gif align="center" caption="un.gif"]] ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE UNITED NATIONS ** * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">served as a sort of watchdog to the world for more than 50 years
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The main organizational units of the UN are the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice, and the Secretariat ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">CONTAINMENT **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">a policy that was first implemented by the United States in 1947 in response to communism
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">it was meant to prevent the growth of the soviet union
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">president Truman asked Congress for a $400 million appropriation specifically to combat communism in Turkey and Greece
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">both country were in economic disaster and hardly able to support themselves
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">the US helped put Europe back together ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE MARSHALL PLAN **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">it was the European Recovery Plan
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Marshall presented a plan to congress to help Europe fight against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">the intent was to limit Soviet influence in Western Europe by improving economic conditions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">the plan would have a powerful stimulating influence on the U.S. economy
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Many in Washington were strongly opposed to providing further aid to Europe after the expense and sacrifice of the war
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">16 countries took part in the plan
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Marshall was awarded the noble peace prise ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:marshall.jpg align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg width="344" height="261" align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">supplied the city by airdrop
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">transfer of essential supplies flown into Berlin
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">more than 277,264 flights were made into Berlin carrying 2,343,315 tons of food and coal ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">NATO was a plan to scare the soviets into not attacking the allies
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">they would take an attack on any of the members country’s as an attack on themselves ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:nato.png width="241" height="286" align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg width="262" height="229" align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">the red scare was an American fear of communism
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">anyone who belonged to a communist party was feared to be a Russian spy
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">the Rosenbergs were charged with passing atomic secrets to the Russians
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">they were both executed
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">the HUAC stood for House Un-American Activities Committee
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">they began targeting actors and other famous people for “being communist” the lists ruined their lives ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">COMMUNISM IN CHINA **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Saw the war in Korea as a threat to china
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">in 1950 hundreds of thousands of Chinese communists attacked the UN troops in south Korea
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">MacAuther (a US general) wanted to bomb china but president Truman would not let him. ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif width="221" height="225" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE KOREAN WAR **

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity ** ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">MCCARTHYISM **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">McCarthy was a republican senator from Wisconsin
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Declare he had a list of 205 state department officials who belonged to the communist party
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">This lead to a hunt for communist that wrecked thousands of peoples careers
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">He was arrested for improper conduct against the US army, he said they were “coddling communists” ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg align="center" caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg width="201" height="225" align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE SPACE RACE **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The Soviets expanded their space program
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">they launched a series of Sputnik satellites
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">this meant that the soviets had a missile powerful enough to reach the US
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d3835; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">prompted the U.S. to increase its dedication to NASA ||