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Soviets Create and Test Nuclear Bomb
The Soviets test their first atomic bomb in Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan on August 29, 1949. Their first nuclear test was about equal to that of the United States' first test. The US did not know about the bomb until about a week or so later when a US spy plane picked up evidence of radioactive activity. One of our physicist who helps the US create our first atomic bomb was arrested for giving our secrets to the Soviets, helping them develop the first bomb. He also gave information -
US Creates and Tests the Hydrogen Bomb
The development of the hydrogen bomb was a thermonuclear bomb that was 1,000 times more powerful than our original atomic bomb. The first hydrogen bomb was first tested in the Pacific. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the creators of the atomic bomb, helped create the United States’ hydrogen bomb. Talk of creating the hydrogen bomb came up after the Soviets had caught up and created their atomic bomb.
With the United States creating the hydrogen bomb, this put the US ahead of the Soviets in our -
Soviets Launch Sputnik
Sputnik was the start of the Space Age. Sputnik was the world’s first artificial satellite.The Russian satellite was launched from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic. Sputnik was launched to study Earth and the solar system under the International Council of Scientific Unions. It could be seen with binoculars before sunrise and after sunset and could transmit radio signals back to Earth that were strong enough for some amueter radios to pick up.
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The Six Day War
The Six Day War was between Israel and the three Arab states of Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. The Six-Day War was fought between June 5th and June 10th. The Israelis defended the war as a preventative military effort to counter what the Israelis saw as an impending attack by Arab nations that surrounded Israel. Within Middle East, the war reshaped the political landscape of the region and redrew the boundaries of Israel. But in its victory against the Soviet-supported Arab states, Israel -
US Sends a Man to the Moon
President John F. Kennedy was the president who wanted to land humans on the moon. Eight years after Kennedy’s wish, it took four days for the US spacecraft of Apollo 11 to leave Earth and to land on the moon with its passengers Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Mike Collins. Armstrong was the first to walk on the moon and he and Aldrin walked around for hours and conducted experiments while Collins stayed in orbit and also conducted experiments and took pictures. They left the American -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union crashed on Christmas Day in 1991. Days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics met in the city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. Instead, they declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States. Because the three Baltic republics had already declared their independence from the Soviet Union, only one of its 15 republics, Georgia, remained. The Soviet Union had fallen, due to the great number of radical
