When we look back at the twentieth century, we can see how tumultuous it was in terms of geopolitics. It began with the Belle Epoque and culminated in WWI, which lasted from 1914 to 1917 and saw Europe reconstructed by the Versailles Treaty. Regardless of the necessity of such a pact, the manner other countries treated Germany after the war was very contentious. The sense of shame was one of the major causes that contributed to the enormous rise in fascism and nazism in Germany, which finally led to WW2. Following the Second World War, Europe's most powerful nations were decimated, leaving the Soviet Union and the United States as the world's most advanced and developed nations.Which led to the cold war when the space race began, with the USSR taking the lead by launching the first satellite into space. This alarmed the United States not just because of how its enemy had attained space, but also because it demonstrated a tremendous advancement in USSR capability. Following these events, the United States entered the space race, which finally led to the first man landing on the moon, which was undoubtedly the most astonishing occasion in the history of space travel, yet one might argue that the real trip to the moon was futile.