[DOC] [TLE] The October 4 launch of this made Americans doubt their country's ... [PAR] Jeopardy Question: 1957 - The October 4 launch of this made Americans doubt 
their country's technological superiority. [DOC] [TLE] Cuban Missile Crisis by Jack Pura on Prezi [PAR] On October 4, 1957, the USSR successfully launched Sputnik 1 (the first earth-
orbiting satellite) and caused Americans to doubt their technological superiority 
over the ... Naturally, this only made Cuban-American tensions grow further On 
October ... that if these were for use against any countries in the western 
hemesphere,... [DOC] [TLE] A Comedic Response to the World's First Artificial Satellite [PAR] was cast into grave doubt Thursday when the Russians launched a two-foot ball 
of ... Onion made comments about him numerous times throughout the article. By 
saying that he actually shut down schools in the around the country and told the 
children of America to pray ... Sputnik was launched the night of October 4, 1957. [DOC] [TLE] Sputnik: when American fears went into orbit | Former Soviet Union ... [PAR] Oct 4, 2007 ... When the Soviets put the first man-made satellite into space, ... terms 'a sudden 
crisis of confidence in American technology, values, politics, and the military'. 
That's an era from which America, for all its overwhelming military superiority .... 
There, on 4 September 1957, exactly one month before the launch of... [DOC] [TLE] Space Race - Wikipedia [PAR] The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, 
the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in 
spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race 
between the two ... The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4, 1957 
orbiting of... [DOC] [TLE] Public Opinion and the Development of Space Technology - JStor [PAR] American and Russian scientific, technological, and military capabilities became 
... Unfortu- nately, there have been only two special studies of opinion reactions 
to ... has succeeded in launching a man-made satellite around the earth?" (If Yes)
, ... 1958,4 33 per cent of the respondents stated that they were "very im-. [DOC] [TLE] With Fear and Wonder in Its Wake, Sputnik Lifted Us Into the Future ... [PAR] Sep 25, 2007 ... To make matters worse, the first American attempts to launch a tiny ... would have 
merely confirmed their reputation for technological superiority. ... The residual self
-assurance that committed the country to Apollo in 1961 had given way to self-
doubt. ... On Oct 4, 1957, a tiny satellite stunned the world. [DOC] [TLE] Sputnik, the anticolonial revolution, and science as an ideological ... [PAR] But on 4 October 1957, the 184-pound Sputnik I, emitting a pulsed electronic 
beep, ... U.S. technological competence in the months following the launch of 
Sputnik, ... support to Latin-American countries in the 1960s and 1970s than their 
feeble ... Few scholars doubt that the American scientists and policy officials who
... [DOC] [TLE] James R. Killian, Jr., Sputnik, and Eisenhower - The Cupola ... [PAR] Advice and the Reformation of American Science Education, 1955-1958 ... On 
October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the first of two ... 
Eisenhower made several public addresses in which he suggested that ..... 
awaken the nation from its delusions of Herculean technological and educational 
superiority. [DOC] [TLE] The Partnership - ch1-4 [PAR] Then in October, Luna III swung around the moon and photographed its back 
side. ... of two Germanys, made a summit meeting with the Americans 
undesirable. ... Six satellites and 2 space probes have been launched 
successfully by the Soviet .... Clearly the Soviets enjoyed their sense of 
technological superiority, but still... [DOC] [TLE] Dwight Eisenhower on Technology - OnTheIssues.org [PAR] Dwight Eisenhower on Technology; politicians on the issues; Political pundits. ... 
On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, ... 
was agreed that America needed a space agency--ought to be established within 
the ...

Question: The October 4 launch of this made Americans doubt their country's technological superiority
Answer: Sputnik