Which statement about the space race is correct?
•October 1957:Sputnik I is launched into orbit.
•April 1961: Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space.
•May 1961: astronaut Alan shepherd becomes the first American in space.
• March 1965:Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov conducts the first space walk.
• July 1969: Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the moon.
A) it helped the international community recover from an economic depression
B) it was part of the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
C)it contributed to a period of international peace that followed World War II
D) it led to direct military conflict between the United States and the Soviet union