Politically American society was affected because people were split between opinions on communism. As in document 4 in the Trial of Julies and Ethel Rosenberg, people were either for or …show more content…
People supported certain parts of education during this rivalry. In Russia, they launched a satellite which was the first to successfully orbit the earth. This made us want to beat them in the space race, we wanted to be more successful in space and we feared they could use this against us. In document 6 it portrays that we funded and taught science and math education over other subjects, emphasizing them. This caused less attention towards English skills and history ethics. Without those, kids did not receive an evenly balanced education. Since people were more mathematically adept and concentrating on those skills rather than dancing and social life, our nations economy took a turn in both jobs and