At the end of world war 11, huge swaths of europe and asia had been reduced to ruins, targeting france. houses were destroyed, borders were redrawn, and homecomings, explosions, and burials were under way, to france.
During the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union engaged a competition to see who had the best technology in space. The Space Race was considered important because it showed the world which country had the best science, technology, and economic system.