The Space Race and ICBM`s
The Space race was the famous competition between the United States and the USSR for the moon.
- The Soviets launch the first Earth Orbiting Satellite called Sputnik in 1957.
- Sputnik gave the Soviets an immediate upper hand in the space race
- Sputnik was only the size of a basketball
- People feared that atomic weapons would be able to be delivered without planes
- The USSR began to demand concessions
- ICBM- Inter continental ballistic missiles
- The Americans ended up being the first to land on the moon