Answer: It encouraged the U.S. to desegregate, because the Soviets claimed they supported equality for all people.
Explanation:
The United States kept claiming to be the beacon of democracy and equality around the world yet she was segregating against members of her own citizenry by keeping black people against from white people.
The Soviet Union always seized upon this to show the world that the U.S. was not actually equal and that the Soviet Union was more equal than the U.S. This was during the time of the Cold War and the U.S. did not like the fact that the Soviets held the moral high ground and so actively tried to end segregation.
Because after the second world war, there was a surge of immigration that flowed to the United Staes. There was also a substantial amount of people who were intelectuals that were flocking to this country. All of this led, of course, to dramatic changes following World War 2.
It's called a term. When a elected official serves an certain amount of time in office. That's called a term because they're serving for a given number amount of time in a certain period.