1960’s Europe And The World🏳️🌈🎵🚀🚌 Flashcards
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Technological Change: The Space Race
Cold War competition in Science and Technology
Three reasons why both superpowers spent heavily on the space race?
- Rockets: Designed to carry satellites and then people into space and could be used to carry nuclear bombs to attack the other side.
- Rivalry: By being the first superpower to achieve greatness in technology they would prove the superiority of their system. Space travel was the most spectacular example of this.
- Technology: New technology developed during the space race (such as computers ) could be used in other areas of both military and civilian life.
Technological Change: The Space Race
The First Satellites
What did the Soviets achieve?
What was the Soviets/world’s first satellite called?
What satellite did the USA eventually launch?
What did the USA then establish?
- Early successes
- Sputnik
- the Explorer
- NASA
Technological Change: The Space Race
The First People in Space
What did the superpowers then compete for?
Who orbited the Earth and landed safely on his return?
The Soviets scored another success when?
What was JFK determined to succeed at?
- Who could get the first human into space.
- Yuri Gagarin
- Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
- Landing a person on the moon.
Technological Change: The Space Race
The Moon landings
What launched from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida?
What astronauts were in board?
- Apollo 11
- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Micheal Collins.
Technological Change: The Space Race
Consequences of the Moon landings
By landing men on the moon the USA clearly …… the space race, giving them a huge propaganda victory.
Five more Apollo missions would land on the moon but over time it ….. …… ….. due to the …. and NASA ended them.
Satellite communication and computer technologies …. as a result of technological breakthroughs from the space race.
- won
- lost public support
- cost
- advanced
The Decade of Protest: Struggle for African-American Rights
African Americans were still treated as what?
African Americans were no longer accepting this treatment and began what?
Who did this movement come under the leadership of?
What did he believe in?
- second class citizens
- The civil rights movement
- Dr Martin Luther King Jr
- strictly non-violent protest
Non-violent protests
The use of protest marches and boycotts of businesses, using the media to highlight discrimination and attacking discriminatory laws in the courts.
The Decade of Protest: Struggle for African-American Rights
What were some of the major events in the Civil Rights Movement?
- Montgomery bus boycott
- Martin Luther king’s ‘ I have a dream’ speech
- Civil Rights act and Voting Rights Act
The Decade of Protest: Struggle for African-American Rights
Montgomery Bus boycott
Sparked by Rosa Parks who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger.
Other protest movements in the 60s
- Women’s movement
- The student movement
- Environmental movement
- Gay rights movement
Youth Culture
The emergence of Youth culture
Why was there a ‘baby boom’ after WWII?
Because soldiers returned home, married and had large families.
Youth Culture
Young people’s tastes in music, fashion and entertainment
Youth Culture: Music
What did musicians do for the first time?
Popular 60s music acts were?
- make music directed at young people.
Beatles
Bob Dylan
Rolling Stones
The doors
Elvis Presley
Jimi Hendrix
Pop music
Sounded different
Addressed topics that made adults feel uncomfortable
About love, sex, Doug’s, personal freedom and youth rebellion
Youth Culture: Fashion
Modest clothing had been replaced by?
The new fashion represented what?
Bright colours and very different styles
The rejection of their parents
Impact of Youth Culture
Free education meant?
People were marrying and having kids at a ?
More went to university and were better educated
Older age
