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The Germans invaded Belgium which allowed them to attack France from the North. If successful, the Germans would move their armies East to fight Russia, avoiding a two front war.
Bismarck had built a complex network of international treaties whose key element was the Triple Alliance that united Germany with Austria-Hungary and Italy. The main objective of the German chancellor was the maintenance of a status that he considered beneficial for Germany.
Historians points out that the cold war reached its height during the Cuban crisis of 1962, when both superpowers, USA vs Soviet union achieved mutually assured destruction, known as MUD.
the Cuban crisis basically resulted from the soviet union placing its nuclear arsenals in Cuba territory, in retaliation of the USA pacing its arsenals in European Nato countries such as Turkey. could have any of the country overreacted, it would have resulted in another war; This time,all sides loaded with weapons of mass destruction, and the catastrophe would have been worse than have even been witnessed in history.
The primary difference between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists was that the former want to ratify the Constitution, which replaced the far "weaker" Articles of Confederation, while the latter wanted the states to have more power than the federal government.
April 30, 1803. United States paid $11.25 million and also agreed to take on French debt of about 3.75$ million owed to American citizens. With the purchase, the United States had more than doubled its size.