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A 5 page recount of the societal situation surrounding our 1980 triumph in the Olympics against the Russians in hockey. Our victory could not have come at a more needed time in history. The country was at an all time low in terms of our morale. We had endured the Iranian hostage situation, a severe slump in our economy, the Afghanistan crisis, and the three mile island disaster among other impacts to our psyche. This hockey win may have seemed insignificant to some but in reality it came at a crucial time. It served to lift our spirits from one of the lowest valleys they had ever descended.
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of the U.S. hockey team over the USSR and the gold medal that triumph yielded could not have come at a more needed time in history. The country was
at an all time low in terms of our morale. We had endured the Iranian hostage situation, a severe slump in our economy, the Afghanistan crisis, and the three
mile island disaster among other impacts to our psyche. This hockey win may have seemed insignificant to some but in reality it came at a crucial time. It
served to lift our spirits from one of the lowest valleys they had ever descended. Consequently, in addition to being an inspiration for the acceptance of hockey as a
true American sport, this simple hockey triumph had a tremendous impact on American society overall. Many, in fact, called the triumph a miracle.
The power of such events to direct the course of history can never be underestimated. There are, in fact, hundreds of examples which attest to this fact.
Each of these examples, upon closer examination, reveals that no one event, no one person, acts entirely alone in the shaping of historical events. Instead there is an interplay
between them, circumstance, and other major and minor players. At the time of the U.S. hockey victory over Russia the U.S. had suffered severe ideological undermining. The events
which had unfolded with our involvement in Vietnam were responsible for much of this undermining. In addition to the variety of moral and ethic factors which combined to subdue
the actions of our military in Vietnam, there were a variety of political factors at play. Indeed, there were blatant political inconsistencies which coupled with an obvious bias from
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