Saint Dominque was a colony under French rule. Haiti is the independent nation that got their freedom from the french in a slave revolt. (Haiti used to be Saint Dominque)
One of the two major goals that the National Organization for Women worked toward when it was first founded was getting the federal government to actually enforce the new anti-discrimination laws that were supposed to be helping women.
As the demand for slaves grew, the Portuguese began to enter the interior of Africa to forcibly take captives; as other Europeans became involved in the slave trade, generally they remained on the coast and purchased captives from Africans who had transported them from the interior.
In the 1930's Japan went to war with China. The United States supported China and placed a trade embargo on Japan so they couldn't get any supplies from the United States, particularly oil that might fuel Japan's military conquests.<span />
