Was there a “back door” to World War II, as some revisionist historians have asserted? According to this view, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, inhibited by the American public’s opposition to direct U.S. involvement in the fighting and determined to save Great Britain from a Nazi victory in Europe, manipulated events in the Pacific in order to provoke a Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, thereby forcing the United States to enter the war on the side of Britain
The Great Plains were one. They hunted elk, bison, antelope, and etc..
The Continental System was a decree by the Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte which was made to limit British trade and bankrupt the country.
At his mightiest, Napoleon controlled almost every powerful country in Europe, except for Britain and Russia. He found it difficult to directly attack Britain and instead wanted to bankrupt it.
However, this eventually backfired and left France in a very bad economic conditions and Britain took advantage of this.
Many smaller countries that France had annexed, took up arms against Napoleon and began to fight. With a weakened economic position, Napoleon eventually lost the Empire.
Nativism contributed to the Act as the Chinese were considered a threat to the economic well-being of the natives. The Chinese were stereotyped as degraded, dangerous, and competitors for jobs and wages. The passage of the act characterized the outcome of years of racial hostility
The USS Maine sunk the USS Maine.
Modern analysis has evolved and now pinpoints an internal coal bunker fire as being the likely cause of the explosion that took down the USS Maine.
This is a dramatic discovery as the sinking of the USS Maine was blamed on the Spanish mines in the harbor.
