A. He remembered his own childhood
The two nations wanted to best one another in the development and stockpiling of nuclear weapons, which drove the competition between them.
Plessy v. Ferguson set forth the doctrine of "separate but equal" which enabled institutionalized segregation as long as things were "equal"
However, the Court did not define what equal really meant.
So, you might see a bathroom for African-Americans that was a hole in the ground while the whites only bathroom was pristine and modern.
Pyrenees, because it is the only mountain range that was listed in Europe