Executive Order 8802 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. ... Many citizens of Italian or German ethnicity were affected by World War II and this was impeding the war effort and lowering morale.
Both the Roman and Han economies were in large part based on agriculture. Sea trade was less expensive than land trade and the fact that Rome was more of a naval empire than the Han Dynasty meant that commerce played a greater role in the Roman economy.
One of the main ways in which the policies of Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin were similar is that they all sought to avoid nuclear war with the west--knowing that engaging in such a conflict would no doubt lead to their utter destruction.
