Miracle On Ice Research Paper

For the National History Day Project, I decided to research the topic of “The Miracle on Ice”. Since I love to play and watch hockey, I thought this would be an ideal topic. The first thing I needed to do was to research the topic. I conducted my study by doing a search on my safari browser of both my iPad and computer. To locate sources, I typed the following words into my search: Miracle, on ice, facts, history. After I realized my topic was related to the Cold War, I then added the words cold war to my search. Their were many references that came up about Miracle on Ice, and the Cold War, so I searched for references that discussed both. I looked at several of the sites that looked interesting to me. I watched 3 video excerpts and once full movie. …show more content…
From my research, I noticed how the victory over USSR in the 1980s was compared to the events of the Cold War. After researching the topic, I noticed the several of the references describe a link between the victory of the USA hockey team over team USSR. This helped me create my thesis which states: When team USA beat team USSR in the 1980 Olympic games, they brought home much more than a medal, they inspired their fellow American's with the hope they needed to be victorious over the Soviet Union and bring a period known as the Cold War.
My next step was to decide what content to use for my website. Since I had plenty of information to choose from, I narrowed my list to photographs, video content, audio content and my papers. Within my website, I chose the following pages to organize my site: Home, Miracle on Ice, The Cold War, Historical Context, Annotated Bibliography, Thesis, and Process