Answer: A) The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense face-off between America, led by President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union, led by Nikita Khrushchev, in October of 1962, over the placement of Soviet missiles on the island of Cuba, close to the United States home territory. It is often stated that this moment was the closest the USA and the USSR ever came to the eruption of an actual nuclear war between the two superpowers.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached we can say the following.
The labor movement launched a sustained assault on the understanding of freedom grounded in Social Darwinism and the liberty of contract in that the labor movement started to question the validity of those affirmations and content.
The labor movement was formed to end the idea that the richest men were the fittest to survive and control poor workers.
The strength of the labor movement relied on the union of the workers to demand better working conditions, the reduction of long hours at the workplace, and the increase of their salaries.
That is the foundation of important labor unions and movements such as the Knights of Labour, the Farmer's Alliance, the IWW, or the AFL.
Is the interstate commerce act a valid example of pure socialism?
No it is not. The reason it's not is this is that Socialism has to do with ownership of the means of production and distribution, which means how the surplus value generated by the means of production is used.
the Interstate Commerce act has nothing to do with socialism.
It is an example of government interventionism in a market-based economy. It did not attempt to change the method of ownership and allocation of surplus value in the railroad industry, nor did it attempt to introduce worker self-management.
