The success of Sputnik sent fear into the heart of America, as with it came the very real possibility of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile attack and mutually assured destruction. ... Laika captured the hearts of people the world over, and in the public eye the USSR had taken a seemingly unassailable lead in the "Space Race". ...
There were many reasons for this "termination " some good hearted and some not, like ending restrictions on the purchase of liquor and firearms, eliminate costly federal spending, to settle land claims, and stripping Natives of tribal land. ... Native American politicians were obligated to defend the idea of the reservation and to attack the notion, carved in Greenough's statue, that Indianness was un-American and dangerous. ... Federal lawmakers continued to attack the integrity of Indian homelands.The federal government also displaced Native communities in the name of progress and natio...
President Reagan drove for a space-based missile system to help keep America on the offensive and, to protect ourselves from other countries trying to attack the Untied States. ... Reagan saw the Soviets at the heart of every international dispute, from revolution in Central America to international terrorism in the Middle East. ... This was big for both country's' as the missiles were demolished from attacking each other. ...
Stalin later said: "This creature softened my stony heart. ... During the summer of 1918, Stalin's operations came under military attack by Cossacks and anti-Bolshevik forces from both the Caucasus and the Donets basin. ...
But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack one another, and granted Stalin permission to take over the Baltic States and eastern Poland, and prosecute a war in Finland. ...
Prior to the 1960s, war films did well at the box-office. Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. Rather than questioning the accuracy of setting, dialogue, or action, audiences gave the film makers freedom to use their imagination. Howe...
