The cold war was when the U.S. and the Soviet union almost had a nuclear war. It all started with the Cuban missile crisis. The communist planted nukes in cuba and had them there as a secret. As we all know Cuba is right off the coast of Florida and it is said that if the nuke was launched it could reach Washington D.C. in only 10 min. <span />
Slavery. At the heart of the divide between the North and the South was slavery.
States' Rights. The idea of states' rights was not new to the Civil War. ...
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The Civil War confirmed the single political entity of the United States, led to freedom for more than four million enslaved Americans, established a more powerful and centralized federal government, and laid the foundation for America's emergence as a world power in the 20th century.
