Formal and informal segregation, discrimination in employment and housing, denial of civil rights, and outright violence faced African Americans in the southern communities provided a major impetus to leave the region during the first half of the twentieth century.
Personally, I would choose a bayonet in a hand to hand combat fight. Rifles are just for a far distance. If the person is close to you they can easily take it from you but then if it's a bayonet and you know how to use it then they won't take it from you unless they are some bad a** people.
The government mostly assisted business interests and sent in militia to put down strikes, although sometimes negotiations would happen.
Answer:
to form a bloc of western nations to defend against Soviet aggression
Explanation:
As a result of the increase and influence in the expansion of communism style of government and ideologies spreading the Soviet Union.
The United States along with some other Western European countries decided to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), formed in 1949.
The original purpose behind this group formation is to "form a bloc of western nations to defend against Soviet aggression."
Grant was one of the few Generals of the time that had a strategy, and tactical capabilities. When you examined the Generals of the time very few had an overall strategy, the mast majority of Generals had only focused on their theater