If it's a true or false question, then the answer is yes.
In 1980<span>, the </span>United States<span> led a </span>boycott<span> of the </span>Summer Olympic<span> Games in </span>Moscow<span>to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In total, 65 nations refused to participate in the games, whereas 80 countries sent athletes to compete.</span>
They passed jim crow laws to appeal more to the northern states but still had many segregation issues
Basically Soviet artificial satellite to be placed in orbit. :)