Women moved into the workforce to replace men who went in the military.
Draft boards.
Factories worked long and hard, many died of injuries or heart attacks to make sure our servicemen got what they needed, from bullets to socks.
gasoline rationing depended on your job.
Limited amounts of meat, sugar, coffee.
women's stockings were out, silk was needed for parachutes.
Ran your tires until nothing left and patched the heck out of them.
Planted "Victory Gardens" for fresh foods.
Collection of unused aluminum pans to build aircraft.
And the worst- bad news from the War Dept.
Answer: a. it suggested that the soviet union might have the capability to launch missiles at American cities.
Context: The Sputnik satellite was sent into orbit by the USSR on October 4, 1957. The Soviets announced its mission as a scientific one, to study the solar system. In the Cold War atmosphere, of course, Americans were wary of what other motives the USSR might have had. The Soviets launched Sputnik 2 in November, 1957, with a dog on board. The USA scrambled to get its own satellite program operational, launching the first US satellite, Explorer, on January 1, 1958.
The political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism.
The American West was indeed a land of great opportunity from 1865 to 1900 in the sense that there was an abundance of land and resources available to all those willing to go west.
