At the time when the United States of America decided to build the canal, Panama was a part of Columbia. Today, the canal is an essential route for maintaining good maritime trade links. It can take about eight hours to complete a full journey along the Panama canal.
Answer:
To be found in ¨The Age of Extremes¨ by Eric Hobsbawm
Explanation:
Hobsbawm states that the Cold War was based on a Western belief, absurd in retrospect but natural enough in the aftermath of the Second World War, that the Age of Catastrophe was by no means at an end. J.F. Kennedy, one of the most overrated presidents according to Hobsbawm, shows this belief by saying: ´The enemy is the communist system itself... this is a struggle for supremacy between two conflicting ideologies: freedom under God versus ruthless, godless tyranny.´
It is exactly this democratic freedom that ironically fueled the Cold War fire.
Where the Sovjet government didn´t have to bother about winning votes the U.S. government did.
Another element that contributed to move confrontation from the realm of reason to that of emotion was the schizoid demand of the vote-sensitive politicians to roll back the tide of ¨communist aggression¨.
On the other side of the globe the Sovjet government, with a country and economy in ruins after the Second World War, they needed all the economic help they could get to survive. So on any rational assessment the U.S.S.R. presented no immediate danger.
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<h3>Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.</h3>
Humanism played an important role in education during the time of the Renaissance. Its goal was to improve the lives of the country's citizens and help their communities. During the Renaissance, the humanists opened schools to teach their viewpoints. They also wrote many books about their views. Humanism was a cultural and intellectual movement that was predominant in the fourteenth to sixteenth century Europe. It promoted vernacular texts as opposed to the church's restriction on any text other than religious texts.
