HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Question
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What began the space race?
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Sputnik
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the moon landing
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Ham the chimp
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the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, marking the start of the space race.
Detailed explanation-2: -On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik (Russian for “traveler”), the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit. Sputnik’s launch came as a surprise, and not a pleasant one, to most Americans.
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