I need help please with the assignment that my history teacher gave

Can someone me write a paragraph on this topic i feel confused

The original term of was descriptive of lower-class people who performed manual labor.

After the success of the sputnik launch, the united states feared that they would never be able to launch their own satellite, the ussr had used technology developed by the united states, the soviets had superior nuclear capabilities, that any future us satellites would not be as successful.