Neither side made progress in the war
It created new jobs and it expanded industries
One draw back to a direct democracy is that corruption would still exsist.
A) The South didn't need to conquer the North to win its independence.
The South was just planning on defending itself till the North grew tired, but the North had to conquer the South to be able to reunite the Union and win the war.
Why did the US airlifted supplies into west Germany for over a year because of the Berlin Wall. Truman ordered a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin as an effort to avoid WWII. On June 26, 1948, the first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin. For nearly a year, American planes landed around the clock.
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