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"Manifest Destiny". It means "the belief of many that the United States was destined to control all of the land between the two oceans".
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Taking advantage of his huge popularity for his services to the republic, Gen. Napoleon organized and sucessfully carried out a coup d´etat with the support of the army in 1799. First, there was a triumvirate. He later become the First Consul for life. In 1804 , he crowned himself emperor of France.
Explanation:
The answer is D, both the hesians and loyalists had conflict with the British.
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Correct answers are:
The Mardi Gras tradition is celebrated with grand parades in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay.
Many people in Chile, Argentina, Ecuador and Peru practice Roman Catholicism.
In most Latin American countries, the majority of locals speak Spanish.
Explanation:
First option is correct because it says that members of four countries are celebrating a certain tradition, which shows that it has spread across the continent.
Second option if false, because it says that this are popular in the same country, not more.
Third is correct, because as in first option it mentions that in four countries (at least) people have same religion.
Fourth is false, similar like the second, because it says that only in one country Portuguese is the official language.
Fifth is correct because it says that in most of the countries something is similar. In this case, it is the language.
The increased Soviet defense spending and the war in Afghanistan combined with a moribund economy forced the Soviets to make difficult decisions. Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to reform the Soviet economy, but discovered that you cannot give people a little bit of freedom and starting in 1989 the Warsaw Pact nation’s spurned communism in a series of peaceful revolutions. Starting in 1987 with the signing of the IRBM treaty with Washington the Soviets tempered their positions in the face of continued US confrontation. In 1989, the Soviets acknowledged they could not win in Afghanistan and withdrew their military from the country. In 1991, the Soviet regime collapsed due to the dual pressure of political reformists and the terrible economy occasioned by the attempt to match US defense expenditures.
Ultimately, the Afghan invasion and the renewed confrontation with the west it caused led to the fall of communism in not only Russia but throughout Europe. The communist regime was unable to compete with the economic power of the west and in fact became increasingly dependent on western loans in order to stay in power. Communism proved itself a failed model and the renewed cold war strained the communist system more than it could take. Communism was probably doomed anyway; the Afghan invasion and its consequences only sped up the collaps
