1. How did the United States react to the Communist takeover of China and the Soviet explosion of an atomic bomb?

2. Why do you think Julius and Ethel Rosenberg received the death sentence?

3. Why do you think some people were unwilling to stand up to Joseph McCarthy and his hunt for Communists?

4. Why was the Soviet development of a satellite so significant to the people of the United States?

5. Why would it be responsible to conclude that the USSR/communism was ‘winning’ the Cold War in the late 1940s and early 1950s? Use specific information/events from history.

battle of saint-mihiel, (12–16 september 1918), allied victory and the first u.s.-led offensive in world war i. the allied attack against the saint-mihiel salient provided the americans with an opportunity to use their forces on the western front en masse.

explanation:

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns

the assassination of president lincoln was just one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the u.s. after the civil war. the first reaction to lincoln’s death was disbelief. then it quickly changed to grief. abraham lincoln’s death created an outpouring of grief from citizens in both the north and the south.

explanation:

lincoln was the first u.s. president to be assassinated. president abraham lincoln, america’s civil war leader, was assassinated just five days after confederate general robert e. lee surrendered his army at appomattox court house, ending the four-year war between the states. on the evening of april 14, 1865, lincoln was attending a performance of our american cousin at ford’s theatre in washington, d.c. john wilkes booth – a 26-year old actor, confederate sympathizer, and white supremacist – slipped into the presidential box and shot lincoln in the head. john wilkes booth and his conspirators had initially planned to kidnap lincoln to save the confederate states. but as the confederacy faltered, booth’s thoughts turned to murder. booth may have decided to act on his hatred after lincoln endorsed giving the right to vote to african-american men who had served in the union army.

the correct answer is:   the domino theory states that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.