A team formed of college kids represented the U.S. at the 1980 Olympics. They seemingly did not stand a chance against the Soviet team. Led by their ambitious coach, Herb Brooks, the team was able to overcome a 3-2 deficit in the third period and they defeated their Cold War rivals. Mike Eruzione scored the winning goal. He never played in an NHL game before, which makes the victory even more miraculous.
The Soviet Union emerged from the war with 27,000,000 million civilian and military causalities something which Stalin was keen to use as a bargaining tool in the talk at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam. However, Stalin arrived with very different views compared to the other allies of America and Great Britain. By July 1944 the Red Army had swept through Central Poland and had destroyed any non-communist resistance this showed that Stalin was not prepared to have any non-communist thinking in his sphere of influence despite what was about to say at Yalta that he would give the Baltic States free elections. Stalin was obsessed with the idea of a ‘security belt’ which could be an argument showing his deep mistrust of the west. This aggression towards the West meant that America had no choice at times but to counteract Stalin such as when Truman stopped the Lend-Lease aid programme to Russia in May 1945.
They were peppering our goalie with shots from everywhere. We could not get the puck out of our end of the ice and they struck quick 4-2. Next thing you knew it was 4-3. Their crowd was getting louder and you could tell they were getting more and more confident as a team. With eight minutes left in the game they tied it up making it 4-4, our team was in disbelief.
Ultimately, the team that scores the most goals in the allotted amount of time wins the game. As the sport became more and more popular different leagues sprouted up across the globe, but the National Hockey League, or NHL, has become the most prestigious of leagues and attracts players from all over the world. The NHL was organized in 1917 in Montreal, Canada during World War 1. Since then, the sport has been on an incline in popularity due to its fast paced play and lenient rules towards fouling the other team. This sufficed for the true hockey fans that loved to watch the game for what it is, but to bring in more spectators, the league implemented new versions of the rules to make the game more exciting to the viewers.
Adrian was a whole different story though. Adrian was five star recruit and also the highest rated player in the nation. Adrian Peterson’s freshman year playing football at the University of Oklahoma was the best year a freshman has ever had. Adrian helped his team to an undefeated regular season, a conference championship, and a nation championship appearance. Adrian Peterson also was nominated for the Heisman Trophy.
However, they never did it and broke their promise. They ended up not sending as many troops as they had initially agreed and this caused Stalin having to put more troops out from Russia than he needed to. This caused relationships between the USA and the Soviet Union to change because Stalin lost trust in them and believed that if they had broken promises once, they were more than likely to break them again. The second conference was in Yalta, Russia. It was held in February 1945.
We ended up being down 3 with 10 seconds left. We called a timeout and drew up a play for a three. We passed the ball in and the play failed, but Mike had the ball and shot a three to tie the game. He banked it in and the place went nuts. There were a lot of kids in the gym now and it was pretty cool.
You have to stay alert to watch every shot because you never know when the next one is sailing into the top corner. Snapshots are especially exciting. These shots can reach over 100 mph. Another great thing is when hockey ends in a tie it goes to a shootout. This is where the 5 best shooters from each team go one on one with the goalie.
Elementary school in P.E. was no exception... The basketball games were always so close. Red jerseys would take the lead and then the Yellow jerseys would score and tie it up. I was finally put into the game with minutes to go, the red jerseys were down by two.
I believe that even though the League of Nations had some successes, in the end the League of Nations was a failure as it could not prevent World War Two from starting in 1939. Firstly, the League of Nations was doomed from the start when it was created in 1919. This can be seen in its clear weaknesses in rules and structure, for example, it only met once a year. This is a clear fault as when an emergency came up they had to wait a whole year to discuss the issue. Additionally, USA never joined due to the fact that when the war ended in 1918, even though Woodrow Wilson pushed USA to join the League of Nations, his plans were confounded by Congress.