3. How were US domestic politics in the 1950s shaped by
the Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union?

They were shaped economically and socially. Socially, it led to many reforms and politicians used communism as a buzz word for anything bad. Economically, the US reduced trade with many communist countries.

americans had many intangible advantages. well since the british fought a war far from home military orders, troops, and supplies sometimes took months to reach their destinations, and the british had an extremely difficult objective. they had to persuade the americans to give up their claims of independence, americans had a grand cause: fighting for their rights, their independence and their liberty. this cause is much more just than waging a war to deny independence.