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Chapter 15 Young, Gifted and Black
1. Explain why Sputnik was important to the United States. What did it mean to engineers? (123-124)
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2. Explain the importance of October 5, 1957. (125)
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3. What was PRESIDENT Dwight D. Eisenhower's reaction to Sputnik? (125)
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4. Explain three times in U.S. history that American was behind other countries technologically. 125
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5. Explain why Christine Mann was concerned about Brown vs. Board of Education.
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Dr. Christine Darden is an American mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA to researching supersonic flight and sonic booms.
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