I think that the differences in religion played a large role in the foundation of abuse that the Turks perpetrated upon the Armenians. With the dominant religion of Armenia as Christianity, the Muslim Turks were able to assert the primacy of their own religion on the subjugated Armenians. This resulted in many reforms based on religious discrimination that started the pattern of abuse which laid the foundations for the Genocide. Political and social rights violations...
The north helped the south with reconstruction after the south lost the civil war by surrendering to the North which was run by Abraham Lincoln.
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The German economy was especially vulnerable since it was built upon foreign capital, mostly loans from America and was very dependent on foreign trade. When those loans suddenly came due and when the world market for German exports dried up, the well oiled German industrial machine quickly ground to a halt.