The opium wars forced the Chinese to open Chinese ports to western governments and made the trade in opuim legal .
it was the executive meeting for the colonies
<span>The Truman Doctrine and the North Atlantic and the Treaty Organization were United States responses to the </span>communist threat after World War II.
On April 9, 1682, at the junction of the bird-foot delta near the Gulf of Mexico, La Salle claimed the river and its drainage basin for King Louis XIV, hence the name “Louisiana.” In addition, he named the river Colbert in recognition of his patron and French finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert.