The colonists <span>never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on </span>tea<span>, and the </span>Tea Act<span> rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston </span>Tea<span> Party on December 16, </span>1773<span>, in which </span>colonists<span> boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of </span>tea<span> overboard.</span>
Japan aggressively expanded the territories under its influence, taking over parts of China, invading territories claimed by the Soviet Union, and fighting across the Pacific during World War II.
The Spanish were invading and taking over tribes stealing their riches and killing their people.
<span>Arab rejection of the UN partition plan
The UN created the state of Israel intensifying existing issues between Israelis and Arabs.
Arab nations backed Palestine in their fight against the creation of the Israeli state. Since 1948 when Israel was occupied and officially declared there has been violence over the rightful owners of the land in particular the Holy Lands. </span>
