<span>New states were added to the Union.
The population grew in the territories.
The cattle-ranching industry grew.</span>
Answer:
As President, Nixon was only as conservative as he could be and only as liberal as he had to be. He took credit for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency while privately noting that if he had not taken this liberal step, the Democratic Congress would have forced more liberal environmental legislation on him. This was a President who could philosophically oppose wage and price controls and privately express the conviction that they would not work, while still implementing them for election-year effect. Still his tactical flexibility should not obscure his steadiness of political purpose. He meant to move the country to the right, and he did.
Explanation:
Off the top of my head:
The US devised the Manhattan project during ww2 and afterwards to develop nuclear weapons. The kept this secret from USSR even though they were allied. This contributed to Stalin’s paranoia and increased tensions between the two countries.
You also mention how Truman used this ‘atomic-monopoly’ to give him confidence and make him think that he could dictate decisions during the Potsdam conference and other meetings which heightened tensions with USSR.
Nuclear weapons also played a large role during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the point where nuclear war was at it’s closest to becoming reality and destroying the world.
By that point the USSR had also developed atomic bombs. The fact both superpowers had nuclear weapons meant they had to be sensitive in the way they handled each other and you could link this with Cuba and argue that it was the only reason the Cold War didn’t turn into full-scale, physical war.
There’s other things you could say beyond these points as well.
Following the Supreme Court's decision on the AAA and NPR as unconstitutional, FDR attempted to add 2 more seats to the Supreme Court. Being there is no set number in the Constitution, FDR believed he had the right to add 2 more justices. Consequently, the additional seats would have gone to Democrats in favor of the New Deal legislation therefore overturning the blocks put into place. It was overwhelming viewed as an authoritarian move and criticize from all branches and both political parties. Being FDR would have to work within the system, he rewrote his New Deal policies to fit the standard of the Constitution and worked around the system to get his policies in place.
