One of the reasons why so many Americans were in favor of going to war with Mexico was because "They believed it was <span>necessary in order to gain more territory," since it was clear that Mexico was not going to sell the land voluntarily. </span>
Democratisation in Africa had allowed investors to invest in business. The government was able to provide the needs of many impoverished areas as well as financial assistance was given to them by the World Bank.
Fraud from the Chicago "river vote" gave Kennedy the State of Illinois and the electoral college victory.
"Kennedy won Illinois by less than 9,000 votes out of 4.75 million cast, or a margin of two-tenths of one percent. [16] However, Nixon carried 92 of the state's 101 counties, and Kennedy's victory in Illinois came from the city of Chicago, where Mayor Richard J. Daley held back much of Chicago's vote until the late morning hours of November 9. The efforts of Daley and the powerful Chicago Democratic organization gave Kennedy an extraordinary Cook County victory margin of 450,000 votes—more than 10% of Chicago's 1960 population of 3.55 million—thus barely overcoming the heavy Republican vote in the rest of Illinois. Earl Mazo, a reporter for the pro-Nixon New York Herald Tribune, investigated the voting in Chicago and claimed to have discovered sufficient evidence of vote fraud to prove that the state was stolen for Kennedy.
