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To understand the Space Race, you must first understand the Cold War.
The Cold War wasn't really a War - in some views, it was just a competition. The US and the USSR were the largest superpowers the world had ever known - they had the most weapons, money, and power, ever. The US and the USSR were engaged in an arms race initially and were each racing to get the most nuclear weapons.
That was until the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik. The US could not let the USSR get control of space, and in 1969, launched the Apollo 11 to combat the USSR who had recently put the first man in space - by putting the first man on the Moon.
In my opinion, even though it was a competition, it was worth it. Think about it- would we have sent a man to the Moon afterward without all that pressure? Even nowadays, we would not have discovered what we already discovered without it and would not have sent any more rockets. Despite the cost, it has benefitted and will continue to benefit us in the long run.
Hope this helps!
Answer: The winning of the war in Europe against Germany.
This was the "Europe first" strategy, coupled with simply holding Japan at bay in the Pacific theater of the war until Germany was defeated. With the scale of the war and the resources needed to defeat the powerful Axis powers, there was a challenge to allocate military personnel and hardware. The strategy was to win the war in Europe first, and then go after Japan.
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a high ecclesiastic appointed by the pope to the College of Cardinals and
ranking above every other ecclesiastic but the pope.
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Acquiring colonies to provide a favorable balance of trade.
Mercantilism was the theory that trade generates wealth and peer, so gathering colonies that stimulate trade would fall under mercantilism.
