Explain an example of how the Cold War affected the United States in each of the following areas from 1947 to 1960: Politics at home
Covert operations abroad
New alliances

1: Politics at home were very anti-communist, with the Soviet Union being seen as a nation that was trying to destroy the United States with every move it made.

2: Covert operations abroad, such as the Bay of Pigs invasion and covert support to countries at war with the Soviet Union, such as Afghanistan.

3: New alliances, such as NATO were put in place to prevent a third world war.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts