During the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched the satellite Sputnik, which was a major event because it launched the "space race" between the Soviet Union and the US.
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Steel was important to industrial growth after the civil war because it was used to make steel rails for railroads. <span>n the years between the </span>American Civil War<span> and the end of the nineteenth century the modern U.S. industrial economy developed on the backbone of a good transportation infrastructure mainly railroads that were developed from steel.</span><span>
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There is no record of any dynasty before the Shang.