It was very difficult for them because in the household the father would provide for them "or the man of the house" since the men would go off to war there was no one to support the children and women because the women had to do house work they didn't work outside of their houses.
<span>After the success of the Sputnik launch in 1957, the US feared that the Soviet Union would be able to use space-based weapons against the United States, which is why the US frantically began the "Space Race". </span>