The main responsibility of the United States State department is to handle foreign affairs.
In 1914, Gandhi returned to India and lived a life of abstinence and spirituality on the periphery of Indian politics. He supported Britain in the First World War but in 1919 launched a new satyagraha in protest of Britain’s mandatory military draft of Indians. Hundreds of thousands answered his call to protest, and by 1920 he was leader of the Indian movement for independence. Always nonviolent, he asserted the unity of all people under one God and preached Christian and Muslim ethics along with his Hindu teachings. The British authorities jailed him several times, but his following was so great that he was always released.
The US government's decision to develop a hydrogen bomb, first tested in 1952, committed the United States to an ever-escalating arms race with the Soviet Union.
Ida Tarbell, a journalist who authored the book The History of Standard Oil exposed that Standard Oil has violated the Sherman Anti-trust Act(competition law) which led to Rockefeller Oil company break-up. According to her investigative journalism, Rockefeller has been practicing illegal, unfair and immoral business strategies.
