Answer:
South was the poorest region of the US because it lacked infrastructure needed for industrial development. South had not recovered from losing the Civil War.
Explanation:
Here are your matches:
<u>Ronald Reagan</u>
- I challenged the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall. I also maintained a hard line against communism.
<u>Dwight D. Eisenhower</u>
- My administration created the idea of brinkmanship--going to the brink of nuclear war to achieve our aims.
<u>Margaret Thatcher</u>
- I was good friends with leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States and helped end the Cold War by bringing them together.
<u>Nikita Khrushchev</u>
- I pulled missiles out of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and prevented the Cold War from escalating into a nuclear war.
<u>Harry S. Truman</u>
- I made the decision to drop the atomic bomb, but I also became known for Marshall Plan and the doctrine of containment.
<u>Josef Stalin</u>
- I began the Cold War in Europe by creating the Communist Bloc. I also stole atomic secrets from the United States and built my own bomb, thus escalating tension in the early Cold War.
<u>Mikhail Gorbachev</u>
- My policies were designed to give more personal and economic freedom to people in the Soviet Union. I had good relations with many leaders in the Western Bloc.
A bit of added detail:
I'd like to explain more about one item in the list above -- the policy of "brinkmanship" during the Eisenhower administration.
John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State under US President Dwight Eisenhower. Dulles held the office from 1953 to 1959. He wanted a change from what had been the "containment policy" which the US had followed during the Truman Administration, as recommended then by American diplomat George F. Kennan. Dulles felt the containment approach put the United States in a weak position, because it only was reactive, trying to contain communist aggression when it occurred.
Dulles sought to push America's policy in a more active direction; some have labeled his approach "brinkmanship." In an article in <em>LIFE </em>magazine in 1956, Dulles said, "The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art." He wasn't afraid to threaten massive retaliation against communist enemy countries as a way of intimidating them.
It is a noun and a restriction of interest to a narrow sphere
This quote relates to the development of the Fugitive Slave Law developed during this time to attempt to appease both the North and South. It was meant to benefit the North, for example by giving them the territory of California as a "free state", a non-slave state with voting rights. And to appease the South, what became known as the Fugitive Slave Law, which obligated Northerners to return slaves who had escaped. The "irritant" is the fact that Northerners attempted to avoid repatriation and returning of the slaves, so while the South had given their concessions of territory, the North had difficulty implementing the obligatory return of slaves.<span />
