Every other country was forcibly disarmed or broke.
European colonization of Africa was mainly due to its need for raw material.
The invasion, territorial split, colonization and annexation of African territories during the period of the New Imperialism was know as The race for Africa, period which protracted from the 1880s to the beginning of World War I.
By the early twentieth century much of Africa, except Ethiopia and Liberia, had been colonized by European powers, despite the resistance Africa put up against the attempt to colonize their countries.
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The scandal of the second Reagan administration involving sales of arms to Iran in partial exchange for release of hostages in Lebanon and use of the arms money to aid the Contras in Nicaragua, which had been expressly forbidden by Congress was the Iran-Contra Affair.
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The Iran-Contra scandal (also known as "Irangate") was based on the secret arms trade of President Ronald Reagan administration to Iran during the bloody war with his neighbor Saddam Hussein in Iraq between 1980 and 1988. Proceeds from the arms trade were channeled to the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. The stores were supposed to influence in two ways:
-Affects Iran, which had influence over Hezbollah, which held several US hostages in Lebanon.
-Support the anti-communist guerrilla war in Nicaragua.
The deals were made in contravention of congressional decisions banning the financing of Contra-guerrillas and the sale of weapons to Iran. In addition, both arms sales and support for guerrillas were at odds with UN sanctions.
A civilian has rights. He must be told these rights, be given a lawyer, cannot be taken into custody without probable cause, when he is arrainged he can probably post bail, and supposedly he is innocent until proven guilty.
A soldier is guilty until proven innocent. If a major or above testifies that he saw the soldier do something wrong, that soldier is considered guilty right then and there. If he says the officer is lying, he gets hit with the charge of disrespecting an officer. When arrested, he has no right to silence, or to an attorney not provided by the military.
It affected them negatively, the idea of Manifest Destiny is that God has given us as explorers the right and destiny to take any land we discover as our own. this, of course, led to the forcing of native peoples to leave their land in order for the invaders to live there.
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