Equal forces and no use of nuclear weapons.
After the initial invasion of the South by the North, UN forces under US leadership were able to push back forces into the North. However, China then entered the war creating a surge back toward the 38th parallel. With the US unwilling to use an atomic weapon, the countries were evenly matched and no one was able to make traction.
The correct answer is A. The Great Schism or the East-West Schism represented the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches (whose leader was Michael Cerularius, the <u><em>patriarch of Constantinople</em></u>) and the Western one whose leader was Leo IX. There were excommunications that ended in 1965, when Pope <em>Paul VI</em> and <em>Athenagoras I</em> revoked the excommunications decrees.
Slavery is what separated the north and the south. Its what caused the civil war. the north wanted to abolish slavery but the south needed it.
The answer could be that how his family and White House mislead the public about his illness. James Reston comments that journalists do not take the health of candidates seriously and that needs to change.