Because willow tree/wood does not bend and neither does the Constitution.
The United States sponsored the Contras because they were against the Sandinista government which was in place at the time in Nicaragua. The Sandinista government was a national reconstruction government, but it was a government that the United States viewed as communist. It came at the time where the United States was extremely weary of the Soviet Union and communist rule and a time when Reagan was president and his foreign policy was based very much on stopping opposing ideologies from gaining ground anywhere in the world.
<span>He joined the radical black civil rights movement
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<span>I can see two main points that shows the importance of the
Battle of Stalingrad:
1] Material: In the battle the Germans lost and entire army (the 6th) with its
entire staff of commanding officers including a Field Marshall (von Paulus). This
was a staggering loss for a country of limited possibilities in replacing manpower.
2] Psychological: For the first time (and from here on throughout the entire
war) the Russian Red Army assumed the initiative in conducting offensive
actions. The fact also that the first big defeat in Russia of the German Army happened in
a town with the name of Stalin didn’t help the morale.</span>
<span>Both favored representative governments</span>
