America's Greatest 20th Century Presidents by Charles River Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River Charles River]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781492925798
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

Though Sputnik is viewed as the beginning of the Space Race, which would culminate with Apollo 11 landing on the Moon in 1969, the Soviets and Americans had already spent over a decade working on rocket technology, which had its origins with Nazi rocket scientists who developed the V-2 rockets for Nazi Germany in World War II. The Truman Administration even recruited Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun, who had been instrumental in the design of the V-2, and von Braun had successfully designed the Jupiter-C rocket by 1956, which could have allowed the United States to beat Sputnik-1 by over a year. At the time, however, the technology was being designed for use as missiles, a clear indicator of the Eisenhower Administration’s priorities.

Worse, in 1959, a revolution in Cuba put a communist regime in power, under the leadership of Fidel Castro. For all the successes of Eisenhower's first term, Eisenhower's presidency ended with a double whammy of Soviet successes with Sputnik and Castro.

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