In Response to the Launching of Sputnik by the Soviet

question 70

Multiple Choice

In response to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957

• A) Harry Truman condemned the Republicans for allowing a scientific gap to occur.
• B) the federal government began spending billions of dollars to improve American science, math, and foreign language education through the National Defense Education Act (NDEA).
• C) the United States spent nearly a decade trying to equal this achievement.
• D) the Republican party took responsibility for the fact that the United States had fallen behind the Soviets in this area of scientific discovery.
• E) scientists blamed America's slowness on poor math and science education in the schools.

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