The Space Race?

There was a competition between the U.S.A and the Soviet Union.The tensions only grew when the Soviets launched sputnik. It was offically the first unmanned sateilite to go to space. It was about 200 hundred pounds and traveled around the earth at 20,000 mph. This was a huge sucess to the soviets becuase they were getting rockets in the air and the U.S.A has been trying to but still couldnt. This gave a fear to the american people that the Soviets could just attack us and we couldnt do anything about it. The United States was trying everything to help improve americans by making math, language class, and other class harder and required in the educational system. In the next few years U.S.A made a lot of progess and then they finally got there first ever satelitte in space without crashing. The tensions grew even higher after that becuase both were back equal with techonology and weaponry.