At the end of World War II, the United States was the dominant ... The impact of the launch of Sputnik was immediate and profound. Hailed by many as a scientific achievement, advancing the ...

Sputnik – sometimes called Sputnik 1 ... were behind the U.S. technologically after the devastation of World War II — could launch ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons at the ...

Watching Sputnik traverse the sky was seeing history ... As it turned out, the real "world of tomorrow" was delayed because of World War II, but its vision was carried intact into the late 1940s ...

(Zhukov was suspected of plotting to seize power, and, before forcing a decorated World War II general to resign ... When Khrushchev came back, he was smiling: Sputnik's launch was successful.

The shock, of course, was because Sputnik was launched at the height of the Cold War. Both the Americans and the Soviets had scooped up many of the German rocket scientists after World War II ...

Despite its apparent simplicity, the impact of the R-7 rocket cannot be overstated. Sputnik was the first satellite humans launched into orbit, and it stunned the world. "In being beaten so ...

Not since World War II had the country been so united ... to protect the citizenry from a Soviet attack. But the launch of Sputnik ended any sense of protection. Americans now felt vulnerable ...

For some memories of Sputnik's launch—and the impact it ... We'd come out of the Depression and World War II, we had the Salk vaccine, people were thriving. We saw the Russians as brutish ...

The man who is president when Sputnik is launched has spent his entire adult life in the military. The peak of Eisenhower's career is leading the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

The truth is that the Sputnik-1, while a history-maker ... The work on the mighty R-7 rocket originated in the ashes of World War II, when the victorious allies rushed to Germany in search ...