Russia was already launching and developing their space technology. This meant Russia would have the upper hand in a war. Because Russia and America took some of the Nazi's scientists after WW2, America funded the space race. Russia beated us to space, but we beat them to the moon.
It would be the second option
1) 7 July 1937: Clash near the Marco Polo Bridge, close to Beijing
2) 10 May 1940: Germans launch offensive in the West
3) 12 August 1940: Battle of Britain begins
4) 22 June 1941: Launching of Operation Barbarossa
5) 7 December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
6) 4 June 1942: Battle of Midway
7) 5 July 1943: Germans launch battle of Kursk
8) 6 June 1944: D-Day
9) 23–26 October 1944: Battle of Leyte Gulf
10) 9 August 1945: Dropping of second atom bomb, on Nagasaki
I hope this helps!
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