The Space Race
How does it parallel the Cold War
The first person in space
Yuri Gagarin become the first man to enter space in April of 1961. This got the Soviet Union way ahead in the Space Race
Alan Shepard: The First American in space
Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space in May of 1961
Man on the moon
In July of 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. This won the space race for the United States since we were the first country to put men on the moon
Parallels
The Space paralleled the Cold War because the Americans and the Soviets were still competing without a hot-war. The only difference was they were competing over the topic of Space Exploration