<span>The appropriate response is to war. The Cold War was a drawn out time of military rivalry and pressure between the United States and which country is the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had its foundations in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, driven by Vladimir Lenin, ousted the Russian Provisional Government which had supplanted Tsar Nicholas II.</span>
Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, British Empire, Chile, Republic of China, Colombia, <span><span /><span><span><span> United Kingdom,</span><span> Australia,</span><span> Canada</span><span>, India,</span><span> New Zealand</span><span>, South Africa</span></span>,
</span><span /><span /><span> Cuba</span><span>, Czechoslovakia, Germany,</span><span> Denmark</span><span>, El Salvador, </span><span>France, </span><span>Greece</span><span>, Guatemala,</span><span>Haiti,</span><span> Honduras,</span><span> Kingdom of Italy, </span><span> Empire of Japan, </span><span> Liberia,</span><span> Netherlands,</span><span> Nicaragua,</span><span> Norway,</span><span> Panama,</span><span> Paraguay, </span><span> Persia,</span><span> Peru,</span><span> Poland,</span><span> Portugal</span><span>, Romania, </span><span> Siam aka Thailand, </span><span> Spain,</span><span> Sweden,</span><span> Switzerland,</span><span> Uruguay</span><span>, Venezuela,</span></span><span><span> Austria,</span><span> Bulgaria, </span><span>Costa Rica, </span><span> Finland, </span><span> Luxembourg,</span><span> Albania, </span></span>
Answer:
The territories were ready to be claimed.
Explanation:
In the late 1700's- early 1900's, the constantly pushing Western boundary of the U.S. was colonized by settlers. Most of them got their land from the Homestead act, which gave farmers who lived on a plot of land total ownership of said land for living there for a period of time. There were also rancher, miners, and companies using the land up for their expansion.