The USA was one of the forces that lead to the overall downfall of the Soviet Union. Starting with the cold war in 1947, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a period of militaristic tensions. The Cold War was an arms race between the two superpowers, and had severe, negative, economic effects on both of the countries. This was one way that the United States contributed to the collapse of the USSR. In addition, the states of the Soviet Union didn't allow their people to leave the country, in fear that they would stay somewhere else. But, when people finally figured out that life might actually be better in the United States, people became angry. A final factor was the Berlin Wall. After World War I, Germany was divided among the Allied Powers: France, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. But, the Soviet Union, in a way, was unhappy with the way that things turned out. So, it decided to build a wall dividing the communist and capitalist parts of Germany. But, like any wall, it couldn't stay up forever. Eventually, a man by the name of Mikhail Gorbachev came along and started new unprecedented ideas, glasnost and perestroika(openness and freedom). This, along with pressure from <em>the United States </em>(namely president Reagan) caused the Berlin Wall to come down, which was a final factor (at least in this list) in causing the Soviet Union to fall.
When it comes to race it usually delayed the admissions of the states into the Union. For example the states with majority population consisting of Mexicans and Native Americans were not allowed into the Union until the Congress opened those lands for white settlers. The issue of gender impacted the admissions less, the difference was in the level of commitment to the women's rights.
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The most important physical characteristics are:
1. access to the sea: the Mediterranean Sea was offering them the position of natural harbors for the ships, good trade routes and access to fish, which became the main source of their nutrition
2. the Alps represented the natural barrier between Italy and its neighbors, so they could avoid any outside attacks
3. the position of the peninsula provided to the Italian settlements the favorable climate with mild winters and hot summers. Therefore, the settlements were able to develop strong agriculture and grow grapes, olives, and wheat.
They had mainly economic and social interactions at the markets, where people were able to sell their goods, like fish, grapes, wealth, manufacturing products, etc.
Observing traffic laws while driving in the highway is a form of accepting the social contract.
The social contract as expounded by John Locke entailed the people and government entering into a contract that the government would serve and act for the good of the people and people transferring some rights to the leviathan apart from natural rights.
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Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 5, 1933, though prohibition continued in some states. To date, this is the only time in American history in which a constitutional amendment was passed for the purpose of repealing another.
