The Americas! The discovery of the new world opened up a new output for products like gold and silver. (Especially silver for Spain) The Columbian exchange resulted in foods such as the potato being brought over to Europe. Did you know the first potatoes were actually from Peru! Labor animals like cows and bulls were brought over to the new world. This was basically the only good thing about the Columbian exchange for the AMericas. Europe mostly just gave the Americas disease and death.
Political Persecutions forced Seyyid Said to move his capital to Zanzibar from Muscat. Oman had become insecure for him to live and carry on with administration. - The religious persecutions in Saudi Arabia also forced him to leave Oman and settle at the coast of East Africa which was free from such acts.
The US had to draft soldiers to fight in the war and it had to train them to do so effectively.Businesses and citizens were strongly urged to support the war through government and media communications.
The Iran-Contra Affair intensified the already existing Cold War tensions between the USA and the Soviet Union.
<em>The Iran-Contra affair</em> was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of Reagan's presidency. Arms were secretly sold to Iran and the profits obtained from the sale went to support the Contras in Nicaragua.
<em>In Nicaragua</em>, young Marxists known as Sandinistas took power and turned to the Soviet Union for support and advisers. Soviet Union and Cuba both backed the new Sadinistas government. Seeing it as a way to spread communism, the Reagan administration<em> backed the Contras</em> ( the opposition to the new government). The Contras rebels received financial and military support from the U.S., the rebels were also trained covertly by the CIA. The money for the Contras came from illegal arms sales to Iran. The funding of the Contras had been prohibited by the Congress.
<em>The official justification for the arms shipment to Iran</em> was to pay for the release of seven American hostages in Lebanon. Iran was the subject of arms embargo and any arms sales were prohibited. It turned out that the sales started even before any hostages were taken. Iran was involved in a war with Iraq and the United States feared that it would fall under the Soviet Union's influence, as the Soviet Union supported Iraq in that war.
<span>They are mixed with good and bad. I am from Thailand and we are proud to be an independent. We have never colonized by any countries.
If you talk to someone from the Philippines, they probably happy to be colonized by the American (I have no ideas why, but the Filipinos are weird--they don't love their country). Many do like the Spanish however...
If you talk to someone from Burmar, Laos, Cambodia. they probably oppose about the colonization because the French and the English had done nothing to their countries.</span>