What event most clearly prompted the US government to pursue the Space Race? 1)the successful launch of Yuri Gagarin into space
by the Soviet Union/ 2)the Soviet Union’s surprising launch of Sputnik into Earth’s orbit / 3)the declaration by President Kennedy to land a man on the Moon/ 4)the US government’s increase in defense spending after World War II/ 5)the sudden invasion of South Korea by the North Korean military
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: " 2)the Soviet Union’s surprising launch of Sputnik into Earth’s orbit." The event that most clearly prompted the US government to pursue the Space Race is the <span>Soviet Union’s surprising launch of Sputnik into Earth’s orbit</span>
2) The Soviet Union’s surprising launch of Sputnik into Earth’s orbit
Explanation:
The Space Race leads to the 20th-century contest among two Cold War opponents, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight ability. The Space Race starts in 1957 and the U.S. and the Soviet Union are clasped into the Cold War. The Soviet Union has just begun the world's first satellite, Sputnik. Afraid of Soviet military control of space, the Americans immediately ready a rocket.
great britian and france and germany and russia. and after two smaller countries began a war thats all it took to un ravel tensions into one great war... a war to end all wars.
The bombing was the deadliest domestic attack on the American people. It instilled a lot of fear into the people and made them feel as if their lives were in danger.