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Warm Up:
Other than physical combat.. How can you PROVE that you are better/ superior to another person??
… Athletics Weapons, fighting ability Intelligence
Athletics
Olympic Games Miracle Hockey Team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUcnttWV8d4&feature=related
Rocky IVhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_vBxVp
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Nuclear Weapons
By the 1950s Nuclear weapons (invention of the Hydrogen bomb, etc) became more powerful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield
These bombs became a sign of
POWER
Candy Auction
Dollar auction was the same mentality as the Arms Race
You just compete not to lose.. By doing so you both lose tremendously
Instead of bidding on the dollar bill, the US and USSR was competing to see who had more nuclear weapons.Got to the point where both sides had
enough to blow the world up 100x’s over!MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION
Technology & “Smarts” In modern society being smarter = power Who is more “powerful”???
Remember power is defined by “the ability to get people to do things that YOU want them to, instead of what they want to do.
OR
Proving you are smarter is difficult There needs to be a competition of
some sort. How can you PROVE you are smarter
than someone else? Well, they found a competition as well…
The Space Race If you could send something into space..
Where else could you send it?? what could you send?? Sending something into space was NOT
EASY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2h6fr2kAf4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkUSceAtCIE This continued through to the 1960s and the
presidency of JFK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqk1v-KzZ5g
The cold war was fought through another country…◦ ?
Korea, 38th parallel, Stalemate, etc Proving you were superior in other ways.
◦ If you can beat someone real bad in athletics… you can probably beat them up
◦ If you can outsmart someone… you can probably beat them up
◦ If you can show you are stronger than them.. They may feel intimidated … next slide is INTIMIDATION!
To recap..