space race

By johnson99
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    The Cold War

  • New Mexico bomb test

    New Mexico bomb test
    First nuclear bomb ever tested

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    Japan Bombing

  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki
    second Japan bombing

  • NATO Formed

    NATO Formed
    Collective defense

  • Soviet Development of Nuclear Weapons

    Soviet Development of Nuclear Weapons
    Start of the Cold War

  • First ICBM

    First ICBM
    First Intercontinental balistics missile

  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1
    First artificial satellite to be launched into space
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    the Space Race

  • Sputnik 2

    Sputnik 2
    leika the dog was the first living creature to be sent into space

  • Sputnik 5

    First animals to be sent into orbit and return alive

  • Vostok 1

    Vostok 1
    First human space flight

  • Cuban Missile Crissis

    Cuban Missile Crissis
    USSR had a nuclear weapons base in Cuba

  • Mariner 4

    Mariner 4
    Mars Flyby

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" -Neil Armstrong

  • Apollo 12

    Apollo 12
    Bustin' moves on the moon