In 1863, General Grant led a 6-week siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Why was control of Vicksburg so important to winning the war?

A) The confederacy would lose its most important factory located in the city

B) The confederacy would be split in two because now the union would control the entire Mississippi River

C) The confederacy had important office and documents there

D) The confederacy had an important training base there

Two gymnastics teams are intense rivals. the first team has started recruiting new gymnasts from different cities and even foreign countires in an effort to build a stronger team. after learning this, the secondteam begins its own recruitment campaign to find better gymnasts. over a period of months, each team recruits dozens of players, each time trying to find a better recruit than its rivals most recent addition. which idea from the cold war is most similar to this scenario