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In eight pages this discusses how Cold War tensions escalated with the launching of Sputnik and includes the U.S. government and media reactions to the crisis and how this ‘race for space’ resulted in a new arms race. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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were on opposing sides of an ideological conflict that was dubbed the Cold War. The clash between democracy and communism played out for the world to see during the
Korean War, which ended in a virtual stalemate and neither country exerting enough dominance to sufficiently neutralize or completely dominate the other. While the United States was enjoying a
post-World War II calm on the home front and a flourishing economy, the Soviet Union was taking a more assertive international stance. In August of 1957, the U.S.S.R. announced
that it had successfully tested the first ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile (Ungar 111). The U.S. reaction was a cynical one, and the claim was quickly dismissed as being little
more than some global grandstanding (Ungar 111). The Launch of Sputnik October 1957 began innocuously enough, but on the fourth, the Soviet Union stunned America and the rest of the
world with its successful launch of Sputnik I, "the worlds first man-made Earth satellite" (Development of the Present U.S. Space Program 163). This would be the missile shot heard
and felt around the world in hindsight when historians could pause long enough to process the enormity of it. Followed up less than a month later with Sputnik II,
in which a dog was successfully launched into orbit, it appeared as if the Soviet Union was poking fun at the supposed military and scientific superiority of the United States
(Ungar 111). This technological direct hit surfaced the American fears that had take root when the atomic bombs were unleashed upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. As Robert
H. Zieger summarized this anxiety in his article, "The Evolving Cold War: The Changing Character of the Enemy Within, 1949-63," "An enemy that could fire a satellite into space could,
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