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The Space Race began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement four days earlier of intent to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year, by declaring they would also launch a satellite "in the near future". The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4, 1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1, and later beat the US to the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The race peaked with the July 20, 1969 US landing of the first humans on the Moon with Apollo 11. The USSR tried but failed manned lunar missions, and eventually cancelled them and concentrated on Earth orbital space stations
Economic issues in many countries: Greece and Turkey in particular were struggling and the US and USSR as positioning for control.
In the aftermath of WWII, many countries in Europe were left economically devastated. The US employed the Marshall Plan to fund and secure the economies of many countries including Greece (shown on the map). Stalin was next to make a move to secure countries under his influence.
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Before World War I Germany was a prosperous country, with a gold-backed currency, ... The Weimar Republic was politically fragile.
