Which was a major effect of the cold war on the united states in the 1950s?
a. congress passed laws prohibiting united states contact with communist countries.
b. the united states refused to enter military alliances with other nations.
c. participation, or even past participation, in extremist movements was viewed as un-american.
d. americans were required to take loyalty oaths before registering to vote.

In a speech before the american society of newspaper editors (april 16, 1953), president eisenhower stated: "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. this world in arms is not spending money alone. it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. this is not a way of life at all in any true sense. under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." do you agree or disagree?