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To: vertolet

My friend’s mother wrote a paper when she was in high school regarding the Cold War and why America would beat the USSR to space.

Two days before it was due, Sputnik went up. Whoops!


3 posted on 10/04/2007 2:49:34 AM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: Zeppelin

“It was a signal to the United States that now you have to be very cautious if you decide to attack us,” Khrushchev explains.

I could build a case that Sputnik was the reason why we won the could war and the USSR collapsed.


5 posted on 10/04/2007 3:56:00 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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