Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of black nationalism. He urged his fellow black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary,” a stance that often put him at odds with the nonviolent teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Americans had George Washington who trained them to fight and how to avoid smallpox also they knew where they where fighting so they could hide very well
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They traded cotton with Europe for manufactured goods.
The containment was successful in the Cold War when we were preventing Communism from spreading through Europe and Asia and also in the isolationism in the United States that limited its involvement in world affairs
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