The colony of Georgia was very prosperous under British rule, thus the ruling class was satisfied with remaining a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The working class believed they needed protection from possible native raids. However, many people (working class, and upper class opportunist) wanted to become independent. This caused a "civil war" in Georgia. "Radicals" on both side fought for the Crown and others as "patriots"
The main idea of the quote is that the Soviets are tightening their contol over Cnetral and Eastern Europe. The other sentences complete that idea by letting us know what they are doing with Central and Eastern Europe.
Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. After moving to the United States, he worked a series of railroad jobs. By 1889 he owned Carnegie Steel Corporation, the largest of its kind in the world.
The purpose of the Yalta Conference (February 1945) was to discuss what Europe would look like after World War II. The conference involved the three largest allied powers during this time, including the US, Soviet Union, and Great Britain. This meeting revolved around getting Germany to surrender unconditionally as well as a plan for reorganizing territories and who would control them after the war.
The Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945) focused on punishing war criminals, land boundaries, reparations payments, and getting Japan to unconditionally surrender. Japans surrender would essentially end World War II.
Immigrants are motivated to leave their former countries of citizenship, or habitual residence, for a variety of reasons, including a lack of local access to resources, a desire for economic prosperity, to find or engage in paid work, to better their standard of living, family reunification, retirement, climate or ...
