The U.S. government allocated massive sums of money to math and science the 1950s in response to which of the following?
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- A.The Soviet Union landing men on the moon
- B.Fidel Castro coming to power in Cuba
- C.The Soviet Union developing the world's first hydrogen bomb
- D.The Soviet satellite Sputnik successfully orbiting the earth
- E.The United States failing to produce a Nobel Prize winner in science
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