Congress or the Legislative Branch is responsible for making laws.
The use of check and balances.
The United States. Americans formed multiple military campaigns in the islands located in the pacific to drive back the Japanese. Eventually, with the detonation of two nuclear bombs, we successfully pacified the Japanese threat.
Critical thinking can be encouraged and developed in teaching history at the secondary level. The issue is important because students often demonstrate apathy and boredom while history is considered worthless and useless because students just memorize accepted, dry, and dead facts.