The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought betweenRome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were probably the largestwars that had ever taken place. The term Punic comes from the Latin word Punicus (or Poenicus), meaning "Carthaginian", with reference to the Carthaginians' Phoenician ancestry.
The 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln was a turning point for the United States. Throughout the tumultuous 1850s, the Fire-Eaters of the southern states had been threatening to leave the Union. With Lincoln’s election, they prepared to make good on their threats. Indeed, the Republican president-elect appeared to be their worst nightmare. The Republican Party committed itself to keeping slavery out of the territories as the country expanded westward, a position that shocked southern sensibilities. Meanwhile, southern leaders suspected that Republican abolitionists would employ the violent tactics of John Brown to deprive southerners of their slave property. The threat posed by the Republican victory in the election of 1860 spurred eleven southern states to leave the Union to form the Confederate States of America, a new republic dedicated to maintaining and expanding slavery. The Union, led by President Lincoln, was unwilling to accept the departure of these states and committed itself to restoring the country. Beginning in 1861 and continuing until 1865, the United States engaged in a brutal Civil War that claimed the lives of over 600,000 soldiers. By 1863, the conflict had become not only a war to save the Union, but also a war to end slavery in the United States. Only after four years of fighting did the North prevail. The Union was preserved, and the institution of slavery had been destroyed in the nation.
Answer:
The correct answer is A. A major characteristic shared by countries in the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War was an unwillingness to involve themselves in any U.S.-Soviet conflicts.
Explanation:
The Non-Aligned Movement was a group of countries created in 1961, in the framework of the Cold War, by countries that did not identify themselves even with the Western Bloc and its democratic and capitalist values; nor with the Eastern Bloc and its communist and autocratic values. Thus, it was a group of neutral countries in the conflict of the Cold War, which tried not to get directly involved in said international conflict, but to attend in a particular way to their own interests.
Generally, these were countries of a socialist nature, but not aligned with the policies of the Soviet Union, such as Yugoslavia; or from countries with social democratic tendencies such as India.
