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The dictatorship in Spain finished. Juan Carlos I was crowned king of Spain and called for the reintroduction of democracy. In 1979, a new wrinkle appeared in the sort of Islamic fundamentalism, as the Shia theocracy of Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah of Iran and declared alone hostile to both equally Western democracy and godless communism. On July 16, 1979, he assumed the presidency cementing his increase to energy. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein commenced to rise to power by assisting to modernize the state. Many Americans misplaced fascination afterward, sensation that because the state had completed President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing on the Moon by the end of the nineteen sixties, there was no will need for even more missions. China entered the house race in 1970 with the launching of its initial satellite, but technological backwardness and limited resources would prevent the state from starting to be a major force in room exploration.