France gave Great Britain all of their territory in North America following the treaty.
President Polk sent General Taylor to claim an area of disputed land for the United States.
The Cold War
was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in
every conceivable arena – even space. When the Soviets launched the
world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I,
in October 1957, it set off alarm bells in the Eisenhower
administration and created intense fear and anxiety among the US public
that the Soviet Union had surpassed the technological achievements of
the United States.Sputnik orbited the earth and transmitted radio signals for twenty-one days before burning up in the earth’s atmosphere.<span><span><span>1^1</span>1</span>start superscript, 1, end superscript</span> Sputnik II was launched the following month, in November, carrying a dog named Laika. In May 1958, the Soviets launched Sputnik III,
which weighed almost three thousand pounds. Continuing their run of
successful launches, the Soviets in 1959 sent a space probe, Lunik III, to photograph the dark side of the moon.
A- a great diversity of cultures
Still, while women were highly valued participants in Mongol society, they still held less rank than their fathers, husbands and brothers. Work was divided between men and women; the men handled the herds and went to battle, and women raised the gers, made the clothes, milked the animals, made cheese and cooked the food. Men and women raised their children together. Children of the Mongols did not attend a school; rather they learned from their families the roles and work of men and women. Mongol children had toys and played games, much as children of any culture.
