"The United States was effective in containing the spread of Communism." To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? please give 2-3 topics I can elaborate on throughout my essay! thank you!

Indeed, America was effective in containing the expansion of communism. To understand this statement, we must go back to the Cold War, where the western and eastern blocs, that is, democratics and communists, faced each other in a political, economic, cultural and military contest, led by the United States and the Soviet Union respectively.

In this event, the Soviet Union was supported by the Warsaw Pact, where the nations of Eastern Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, etc.) supported the Soviets militarily and politically in the event of a conflict with the western bloc. Finally, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was demonstrated that America managed to contain and defeat communism, since the countries that were once part of the Warsaw Pact ended up becoming market economies.

Today, very few nations can be considered communist: China (almost transformed into a market economy), North Korea, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. This allows us to realize the triumph of freedom over the communist tyrannies during the Cold War.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

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hope im right, havent learned about this in a year