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Event # 1 NATO Ratified
Event # 2 Mao Zedong a communist takes control of china
Event # 3 United States test first H-bomb
Event # 4 U.S launches an artificial satellite.
Event #5 sputnik launched into orbit
- NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe.
- Many powerful countries joined the NATO because of the singing of the document in 1949.
- Today NATO is an outstanding way for the twenty-six different countries and nations to come together.
- NATO has armed forces that made up civilians of all twenty-six countries.
- Many people thought that NATO is pointless and a waste of money.
- The people don’t realize all the hard work that NATO did.
- NATO defended and aided countries in crisis.
- The north Atlantic treaty organization was formed.
- The NATO began on April 4th 1949.
- NATO has been around for fifty-nine years and as long as there are problems in the world the NATO will seek the world to peace.
Event # 2 Mao Zedong a communist takes control of china
- The communist had a stronghold in the northwestern china.
- They mobilized peasants for guerrilla war against the Japanese.
- The communist won the peasants’ loyalty.
- By 1945 they controlled much of northern china.
- The existence of two China's, and the conflicting international loyalties they inspired, intensified the cold war.
- Mao Zedong was involved.
- This event took place in china.
- The imperial government of china had been fatally weakened by centuries of European colonialism and was giving a death blow by the Japanese.
- The communist were heavily backed by the USSR, which was at the time trying to spread communism everywhere on earth.
Event # 3 United States test first H-bomb
- President Truman was involved in this event.
- President Truman was determined to develop a more deadly weapon before the soviets did.
- Truman authorized work on a thermonuclear weapon in 1959.
- The hydrogen or H-bomb would be thousands of times more powerful than the A-bomb.
- Its power came from the fusion, or joining together, of atoms rather than the splitting of atoms, as in the A-bomb.
- In 1952 the United States tested the first H-bomb.
- The soviets exploded their own in 1953 a year after than the United States.
Event # 4 U.S launches an artificial satellite.
- The United States felt they had fallen behind in science and technology and the government gave money into science education.
- 1950’s the United States and the Soviet Union competed for influence not only among the nations of the world but in the skies as well.
- The satellite carried a small scientific payload that eventually discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the earth.
- The sputnik launch also led directly to the creation of national aeronautics and space administration.
- The satellite weighed 31 pounds.
- The nickname of the satellite was “The Grapefruit”.
- It was designed by the Jeff propulsion laboratory of the California institute of technology under the direction of Dr. William H. pick Rory.
Event #5 sputnik launched into orbit
- The Soviet Union launched sputnik the 1st successful artificial space satellite on October 4 1957.
- As it circled the earth 96 minutes Premier Nikita Khrushchev boasted that his country would soon be turning out long-range misses like Saugus.
- The launch of the sputnik into the orbit changed everything.
- Sputnik caught the world’s attention and the American public off-guard.
- The world’s first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball.
- The satellite weighed only 83.6kg or 183.9pounds.
- This satellite took about 98 minutes to orbit the earth on its elliptical path.