The action of the first flight in North Carolina
The imagined Alaska basically as a whole lot of land that is good for nothing. Although he got a good price in comparison, Alaska is huge and cost a lot of money. Just imagine what you think of the Arctic, then having the US pay one trillion dollars for it. Not great.
The most important factor that led to the US's victory in the CW was <span>Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power in Russia. Gorbachev ushered in relatively liberal policies that opened the eyes of many Russian people. Ronald Reagan presided over the end of the Cold War</span> along with Gorbachev.
The most lasting effect of the Cold War is that America no longer faces an ideological foe that controls nearly half the world. America instead now faces a much more dynamic, albeit perhaps complicated, world stage.
Answer: A) The Cuban Missile Crisis
Context/detail:
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense face-off between America, led by President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union, led by Nikita Khrushchev, in October of 1962, over the placement of Soviet missiles on the island of Cuba, close to the United States home territory. It is often stated that this moment was the closest the USA and the USSR ever came to the eruption of an actual nuclear war between the two superpowers.
