100 points, please actually answer instead of point grabbing. I'm writing an essay, I only need 3 main points for each question that I can elaborate on please!

What tactics did Stalin use to take control in Eastern Europe?

How did the USA react to Soviet expansionism?

"The United States was to blame for the start of the Cold War." To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

1: he used salami tactics which is the concept of dividing and conquering opposing alliances.

2: attlee and Truman made it very clear at Yalta and Potsdam the Eastern European country should have freely defined States and government. After Stalin broke that agreement the US offered marshal aid to any countries in eastern Europe. Stalin forbade any countries directly or indirectly controlled by the Soviets to accept the aid.

3: I do not believe they are to blame fully. their reactions to Soviet expansionism sparked the Cold war but if the Soviets agreed and stuck by the pack they made, the us would not have had to react at all so the base of the problem was caused by the Soviets but the spark was caused by The Americans

3. republican abraham lincoln

4. south carolina

5. charleston, south carolina

6. confederates

7. minie bullet - made defense even safer, it spun faster, traveled further and was five times more accurate than any single-man weapon. able to kill at half a mile, it was the largest contributor to battle wounds

      or the the gatling gun - the most successful of several rapid-fire guns that were born before the war. its efficiency in killing only made war more deadly.

idk which one u learned about. pick one.

8. the south was fighting to maintain its way of life, whereas the north was fighting to maintain a union. so they had will, and the north were fighing on unfamiliar territory

9. union had the large population, people to fight in the war and work in the factories to make war materials, industrial base, the factories to make these war materials. the union also was wealthier than the confederacy and could finance the war.

10. stonewall jackson

11. chancellorsville

12. gettysburg

13. sherman

some of these might be wrong but i tried my best.   : )