Mercantilism, Slave trade, colonies, raw materials, maufacturing
Germany's colonial empire was officially confiscated with the Treaty of Versailles after Germany's defeat in the war and each colony became a League of Nations mandate under the supervision (but not ownership) of one of the victorious powers. The German colonial empire ceased to exist in 1919.
In 1889, the Standard Oil Refinery became a source of prosperity for the state of Cleveland, however the pollution they belched into the atmosphere damaged the air around the area. It also damaged the water where the refinery discharged oil into the Cuyahoga River that major fires broke out on the water in 1936, 1952 and 1969. It damaged a lot of property and changed the way industrial plants operated.
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Historians have identified several causes that led to the outbreak of the Cold War, including: tensions between the two nations at the end of World War II, the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States
