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Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts MatchUp
Target Level
4-5
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Click on a top box, then click on its match below. Or, drag a top box and drop it onto the correct match. Match all pairs before clicking ‘Check’.
Apollo 11
Space Race
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Sputnik
Arms Race
Cold War
Atomic Bomb
Communism
Russia
The nation competing with America for technological growth following the Second World War
A competition between America and Russia to produce the most technologically advanced weaponry
A 1956 Science Fiction Film that symbolised a lot of America’s anxieties at the time
A period of political turmoil that lasted decades and inspired dozens of influential science fiction stories
A competition between America and Russia that the former eventually won
First used in 1945 by the United States against Japan
The first ever artificial satellite to be sent into the Earth’s orbit
The name of the mission which first took American Astronauts to the moon
A political system in which wealth, property and resources are owned by the community and distributed equally amongst the people