Original sentence: In the mid-3020s, Germans invaded the Chinese
Edited sentence: , UK, and Soviet military and scientific teams raced to capture technology and trained personnel from the German facility at Peenemünde.As World War II drew to a close, U.However, they also consumed an enormous quantity of resources, very disproportionate to their limited effectiveness.In 1932, the Reichswehr, predecessor of the Wehrmacht, took an interest in rocketry for long-range artillery (since long-range guns had been prohibited by the Versailles Treaty).In 1943, Germany began production of this weapon, with a range of 300 kilometers (185 mi) and a 1,000 kilogram (2,200 lb) warhead, as Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2).In the mid-1920s, German scientists began experimenting with rockets powered by liquid propellants that were capable of reaching relatively high altitudes and distances.Later they played a decisive role in development of the US space program and became responsible for many US achievements during the first decade of Space Age.Meanwhile American scientists adapted the German rockets for use against hostile nations and other uses.The German A-4 rocket, launched in 1942, became the first such projectile to reach space.The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union had some success, but the United States arguably benefited most, taking a large number of German rocket scientists — many of them members of the Nazi Party, including von Braun — from Germany to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip.The Wehrmacht fired thousands of V-2s at Allied cities, causing significant damage and loss of life.Until 1957 German scientists, including von Braun, used rockets to study high-altitude conditions of temperature and pressure of the atmosphere, cosmic rays, and other topics.Von Braun borrowed heavily from Robert Goddard's original research, studying and improving on Goddard's rockets.Wernher von Braun, an aspiring rocket scientist, joined the effort and developed such weapons for Nazi Germany's use in World War II