Cold War: The Development Of The Peace Corps

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The history of the Peace Corps roots directly back to President John F. Kennedy and specifically, in the era of the Cold War. This tense time was imperative to the development of the Peace Corps because the Soviet Union and America were in a, what I like to call, “Anything you can do, I can do better” struggle. As History.com states, President Nixon proposed that communism needed to be “Contained,” which lead to the arms race. The Soviets developed the atom bomb in 1949, which led President Truman to announce the development of the hydrogen bomb. The competition continued when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, named Sputnik, into space. In response, America launched a satellite named Explorer I blasting off the space race (History.com,