<span>At the time, it was the height of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The Soviets also wanted to send a man to the moon. It was basically a race to see who was best. The US didn't want the Soviets to beat them to the moon. The Soviets had already won the space race twice, by launching the first satellite and having the first person in space. The US didn't want to lose the race to the moon. hope this helps</span>
Communal violence between Jews and Arabs escalated into a crisis, and in 1947 the UN proposed splitting the land into a state for Jews (Israel) and a state for Arabs (Palestine). Regional Arab leaders saw the plan as European colonial theft and invaded to keep Palestine unified.
The Homestead Act opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land I put this on my test and got it right
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