The reason why Southerners were more likely than Northerners to support the Mexican-American War is because an American victory in the war would lead to more territory in the South being gained (territory once belonging to Mexico).
The Iraq War did not end quickly because the U.S. Government specifically the State and Defense Departments did not have a clear exit strategy. Following civil unrest in Iraq as well as increasing attacks on U.S. soldiers and the newly formed Iraqi Government the U.S. Government was unable to withdraw quickly and suffered large casualties and expended hundreds of billions of dollars in resources.
Italy, Belgium, France, Poland, Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil. This was right at the very beginning of the rise of communism. People were tired of tyrant kings and the ruling class, so they decided to do something about it. Marx released his manifesto around this time, which cause more revolutions in 1848.<span />
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What made ancient China so isolated was the dry deserts to the north and west of it, the Pacific Ocean to the east of it and the impassable mountains to the south of it.