It would be the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union in which Reagan fought any progressive movements like the Sandinistas in NIcaragua by funding the contras and also he bombed Kaddafi in Libya by trying to make him out to be a tyrant when in fact it turns out that he transformed Libya into one of the most modern and progressive countries in Africa under him.
Some Caribbean islands are coral islands formed from shells and marine animals skeletons.
These islands belong in the older group of Caribbean islands. Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Barbuda, Antigua etc. belong to this group. They practically represent a low laying plateaus composed of billions, if not trillions, of shells and marine animals skeletons that are accumulated on the ocean floor.
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With the gold rush lots of people moved to California with so many people in California the question of California becoming a stage came up. So the many wondered was California going to be a slave state or a free state. If California became a free or slave state there would be a imbalance in power between the two factions.