Answer: I think A
Lmk if I’m wrong
They did it <span>to halt American expansion into territory it claimed.</span>
On March 25, 1774, British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth (in today's money) of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773.
Before the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Stalin knew that the US was developing some sort of mass destruction weapon, but he didn't quite know the specific details. Once the bombs were dropped, and the Soviets stole the secrets to making an atomic bomb, both the US and the USSR escalated into a nuclear arms race, intensifying the already rocky relationship between the worlds two superpowers. Additionally, the rise of communism in several nations (Korea, China, Vietnam) scared the Americans into sponsoring civil wars in both Korea and Vietnam to try and "contain" communism, while the Soviets sought to expand their communist market into nearby nations. Americans saw this as the Soviets attempting to destroy capitalist markets and ruin the American economy, while the Americans saw Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe as a form of tyranny.
